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title: To keep up this population growth, the KMC-controlled area of 5076.6… — Kathmandu · tree and pragmatics
description: To keep up this population growth, the KMC-controlled area of 5076.6 ha expanded to 8214 ha in 2001. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kathmandu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kathmandu, sentence 165

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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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To keep up this population growth, the KMC-controlled area of 5076.6 ha expanded to 8214 ha in 2001.

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**What happens:** keep up, control, expand · **To what, where:** population growth, 5076.6 ha, 2001

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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:165
# text = To keep up this population growth, the KMC-controlled area of 5076.6 ha expanded to 8214 ha in 2001.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	KMC	KMC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	5076.6	5076.6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	ha	ha	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	expanded	expand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	8214	8214	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	ha	ha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep up** | to-infinitive |  | this population growth |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent growth=Theme |
| 2 | **control** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | KMC *compound* | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **expand** | participle |  | 5076.6 ha *not said here* |  | 2001 |  | to 8214 ha | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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