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title: The city of Kathmandu and the surrounding valley are in the Deciduou… — Kathmandu · tree and pragmatics
description: The city of Kathmandu and the surrounding valley are in the Deciduous Monsoon Forest Zone (altitude range of 1200–2100 m), one of five vegetation zones defined for Nepal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kathmandu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kathmandu, sentence 132

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From Wikipedia, [«Kathmandu»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathmandu), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The city of Kathmandu and the surrounding valley are in the Deciduous Monsoon Forest Zone (altitude range of 1200–2100 m), one of five vegetation zones defined for Nepal.

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**What happens:** be, define · **To what, where:** Forest Zone, five vegetation zones, city

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kathmandu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Kathmandu:132
# text = The city of Kathmandu and the surrounding valley are in the Deciduous Monsoon Forest Zone (altitude range of 1200–2100 m), one of five vegetation zones defined for Nepal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kathmandu	Kathmandu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	Deciduous	Deciduous	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Monsoon	Monsoon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Zone	Zone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	altitude	altitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	1200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	2100	2100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	vegetation	vegetation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	defined	define	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the Forest Zone |  | altitude range of 1200 m *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **define** | participle |  | five vegetation zones *not said here* |  |  |  | for Nepal | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Kathmandu», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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