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title: The Licchavis from Vaisali in modern-day Bihar migrated north and de… — Kathmandu · tree and pragmatics
description: The Licchavis from Vaisali in modern-day Bihar migrated north and defeated the Kirats, establishing the Licchavi dynasty circa 400 AD. Who acts: Licchavis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kathmandu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kathmandu, sentence 60

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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 Licchavis from Vaisali in modern-day Bihar migrated north and defeated the Kirats, establishing the Licchavi dynasty circa 400 AD.

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**Who acts:** Licchavis · **What happens:** migrate, defeat, establish · **To what, where:** Kirats, dynasty circa

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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 (Licchavis), 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:60
# text = The Licchavis from Vaisali in modern-day Bihar migrated north and defeated the Kirats, establishing the Licchavi dynasty circa 400 AD.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Licchavis	Licchavis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Vaisali	Vaisali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	Bihar	Bihar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	migrated	migrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	north	north	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Kirats	Kirat	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	establishing	establish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Licchavi	Licchavi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	circa	circa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
23	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **migrate** | past | the Licchavis from Vaisali in modern day |  |  |  |  | Bihar *nsubj*; north *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **defeat** | past | the Licchavis from Vaisali in modern day *not said here* | the Kirats |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **establish** | gerund | the Licchavis from Vaisali in modern day *not said here* | dynasty circa and AD |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circa=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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