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title: The National Assembly, consisting of 59 members elected by provincia… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics
description: The National Assembly, consisting of 59 members elected by provincial electoral colleges, is a permanent house; a third of its members are elected every two years for a six-year term. Who acts: National Assembly, permanent house. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nepal» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# Nepal, sentence 201

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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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The National Assembly, consisting of 59 members elected by provincial electoral colleges, is a permanent house; a third of its members are elected every two years for a six-year term.

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**Who acts:** National Assembly, permanent house · **What happens:** consist, elect, be · **To what, where:** 59 members, permanent house, third

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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 (National Assembly, permanent house), 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:201
# text = The National Assembly, consisting of 59 members elected by provincial electoral colleges, is a permanent house; a third of its members are elected every two years for a six-year term.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	consisting	consist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	59	59	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	provincial	provincial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	electoral	electoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	colleges	college	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | gerund | the National Assembly *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of 59 members | tree rules |
| 2 | **elect** | participle |  | 59 members *not said here* |  |  |  | by provincial electoral colleges | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the National Assembly | a permanent house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **elect** | present · passive | a permanent house *not said here* | a third of House's members |  |  | year | for a year term | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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, «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.

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