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title: Despite continued efforts by governmental bodies, Kathmandu is one o… — Kathmandu · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite continued efforts by governmental bodies, Kathmandu is one of the most polluted cities in Nepal, largely due to overpopulation. Who acts: Kathmandu. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kathmandu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kathmandu, sentence 264

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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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Despite continued efforts by governmental bodies, Kathmandu is one of the most polluted cities in Nepal, largely due to overpopulation.

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**Who acts:** Kathmandu · **What happens:** continue, be, pollute · **To what, where:** one

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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: who acts (Kathmandu), 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:264
# text = Despite continued efforts by governmental bodies, Kathmandu is one of the most polluted cities in Nepal, largely due to overpopulation.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	governmental	governmental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	Kathmandu	Kathmandu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	polluted	pollute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	overpopulation	overpopulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Kathmandu | one |  |  |  | despite continued efforts by governmental bodies; of the polluted cities in Nepal and overpopulation | tree rules |
| 3 | **pollute** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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