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title: According to the scripture of Swayambhu Purana, present-day Kathmand… — Kathmandu · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the scripture of Swayambhu Purana, present-day Kathmandu was once a huge and deep lake where dwelt mythical serpents (Nāgas) like Karkotaka, Takshaka and Kulika and the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, hermits, yogis, gods and goddesses as well as other celestial beings used to come for ablution 
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# Kathmandu, sentence 40

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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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According to the scripture of Swayambhu Purana, present-day Kathmandu was once a huge and deep lake where dwelt mythical serpents (Nāgas) like Karkotaka, Takshaka and Kulika and the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, hermits, yogis, gods and goddesses as well as other celestial beings used to come for ablution in its water.

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**Who acts:** Kathmandu, dwelt mythical serpents · **What happens:** accord, be, dwell, use, come · **To what, where:** huge deep lake

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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, dwelt mythical serpents), 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:40
# text = According to the scripture of Swayambhu Purana, present-day Kathmandu was once a huge and deep lake where dwelt mythical serpents (Nāgas) like Karkotaka, Takshaka and Kulika and the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, hermits, yogis, gods and goddesses as well as other celestial beings used to come for ablution in its water.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	scripture	scripture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Swayambhu	Swayambhu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Purana	Purana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	Kathmandu	Kathmandu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	acl:relcl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
21	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
22	mythical	mythical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Nāgas	Nāgas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Karkotaka	Karkotaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Takshaka	Takshaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Kulika	Kulika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Buddhas	buddha	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	bodhisattvas	bodhisattva	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	hermits	hermit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	yogis	yogi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	goddesses	goddess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
46	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	51	cc	_	_
47	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	fixed	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	fixed	_	_
49	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	celestial	celestial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
52	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	ablution	ablution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Kathmandu | a huge deep lake |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | past | dwelt mythical serpents and the Buddhas and bodhisattvas and hermits and yogis and gods and goddesses as other celestial beings | a huge deep lake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent lake=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | dwelt mythical serpents and the Buddhas and bodhisattvas and hermits and yogis and gods and goddesses as other celestial beings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for ablution in ablution's water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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