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title: A communist insurgency was crushed in its cradle in the 1970s, which… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics
description: A communist insurgency was crushed in its cradle in the 1970s, which led to the eventual coalescence of hitherto scattered communist factions under the United Left Front. Who acts: cradle. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nepal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nepal, sentence 186

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From Wikipedia, [«Nepal»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal), 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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A communist insurgency was crushed in its cradle in the 1970s, which led to the eventual coalescence of hitherto scattered communist factions under the United Left Front.

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**Who acts:** cradle · **What happens:** crush, lead, coalesce · **To what, where:** communist insurgency, cradle, scattered communist factions

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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 (cradle), 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:Nepal:186
# text = A communist insurgency was crushed in its cradle in the 1970s, which led to the eventual coalescence of hitherto scattered communist factions under the United Left Front.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	insurgency	insurgency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	eventual	eventual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	coalescence	coalescence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	23	amod	_	_
22	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	factions	faction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Left	Left	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Front	Front	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crush** | past · passive |  | a communist insurgency |  | insurgency's cradle in the 1970s |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **lead** | past | insurgency's cradle in the 1970s |  |  |  |  | to the eventual coalescence of scattered communist factions under the United Left Front | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to coalescence=Patient |
| 3 | **coalesce** |  |  | scattered communist factions under the United Left Front |  |  |  |  | nom coalescence «act transitive»: of=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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