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title: The team of Dr. Sanduk Ruit in Tilganga pioneered sutureless small-i… — Kathmandu · tree and pragmatics
description: The team of Dr. Sanduk Ruit in Tilganga pioneered sutureless small-incision cataract surgery (SICS), a technique which has been used to treat 4 million of the world's 20 million people with cataract blindness. Who acts: team. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kathmandu» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# Kathmandu, sentence 343

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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 team of Dr. Sanduk Ruit in Tilganga pioneered sutureless small-incision cataract surgery (SICS), a technique which has been used to treat 4 million of the world's 20 million people with cataract blindness.

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**Who acts:** team · **What happens:** pioneer, use, treat · **To what, where:** sutureless cataract surgery, technique, 4 million

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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 (team), 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:343
# text = The team of Dr. Sanduk Ruit in Tilganga pioneered sutureless small-incision cataract surgery (SICS), a technique which has been used to treat 4 million of the world's 20 million people with cataract blindness.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Sanduk	Sanduk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Ruit	Ruit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Tilganga	Tilganga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	pioneered	pioneer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	sutureless	sutureless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	incision	incision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cataract	cataract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	surgery	surgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	SICS	SICS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	technique	technique	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	compound	_	_
35	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	cataract	cataract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	blindness	blindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pioneer** | past | the team of Sanduk  Dr. in Tilganga | sutureless cataract surgery and a technique |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surgery=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **use** | present · perfect · passive |  | a technique |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **treat** | to-infinitive |  | 4 million of the world's million people with cataract blindness |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent million=Recipient |

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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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