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title: Every year the stupa attracts many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims who per… — Kathmandu · tree and pragmatics
description: Every year the stupa attracts many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims who perform full body prostrations in the inner lower enclosure, walk around the stupa with prayer wheels, chant, and pray. Who acts: stupa, many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kathmandu» with its dependency tree and
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# Kathmandu, sentence 319

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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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Every year the stupa attracts many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims who perform full body prostrations in the inner lower enclosure, walk around the stupa with prayer wheels, chant, and pray.

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**Who acts:** stupa, many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims · **What happens:** attract, perform, walk, pray · **To what, where:** many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims, full body prostrations, inner lower enclosure, stupa

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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 (stupa, many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims), 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:319
# text = Every year the stupa attracts many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims who perform full body prostrations in the inner lower enclosure, walk around the stupa with prayer wheels, chant, and pray.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stupa	stupa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	attracts	attract	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	prostrations	prostration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	enclosure	enclosure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	around	around	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stupa	stupa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | present | the stupa | many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims |  |  | year |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pilgrim=Patient |
| 2 | **perform** | present | many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims | full body prostrations |  | the inner lower enclosure |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prostration=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | infinitive | many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims *not said here* |  |  | the stupa |  | with prayer wheels and chant | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around stupa=Trajectory |
| 4 | **pray** | present | the stupa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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