--- title: Saptakoshi, in particular, carries a huge amount of silt out of Nepa… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics description: Saptakoshi, in particular, carries a huge amount of silt out of Nepal but sees extreme drop in Gradient in Bihar, causing severe floods and course changes, and is, therefore, known as the sorrow of Bihar. Who acts: Saptakoshi, Bihar. 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Saptakoshi, in particular, carries a huge amount of silt out of Nepal but sees extreme drop in Gradient in Bihar, causing severe floods and course changes, and is, therefore, known as the sorrow of Bihar. **Who acts:** Saptakoshi, Bihar · **What happens:** carry, see, cause, know, amount, sorrow · **To what, where:** huge amount, Nepal, extreme drop, Gradient, severe floods, silt This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nepal». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saptakoshi, Bihar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Nepal:145 # text = Saptakoshi, in particular, carries a huge amount of silt out of Nepal but sees extreme drop in Gradient in Bihar, causing severe floods and course changes, and is, therefore, known as the sorrow of Bihar. 1 Saptakoshi Saptakoshi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 silt silt NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 out out ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Nepal Nepal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 extreme extreme ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Gradient gradient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Bihar Bihar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 causing cause VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 25 severe severe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 37 as as ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 sorrow sorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Bihar Bihar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | Saptakoshi in particular | a huge amount of silt | | Nepal | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent amount=Theme out nepal=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **see** | present | Saptakoshi in particular *not said here* | extreme drop | | Gradient | | in Bihar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drop=Stimulus | | 3 | **cause** | gerund | Saptakoshi in particular *not said here* | severe floods and course changes | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition flood=Patient | | 4 | **know** | present · passive | Saptakoshi in particular *not said here* | | | | | as the sorrow of Bihar; therefore *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as sorrow=Attribute | | 5 | **amount** | | | silt | | Nepal | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient out=place | | 6 | **sorrow** | | Bihar | | | | | | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Nepal», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nepal/144/) - next →: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nepal/146/) - ↑ back to [Nepal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nepal/)