--- title: Nepal is a secular country, as declared by the Constitution of Nepal… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics description: Nepal is a secular country, as declared by the Constitution of Nepal 2012 (Part 1, Article 4), where secularism 'means religious, cultural freedom, along with the protection of religion, culture handed down from time immemorial (सनातन)'. Who acts: Nepal, secularism. 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Nepal is a secular country, as declared by the Constitution of Nepal 2012 (Part 1, Article 4), where secularism 'means religious, cultural freedom, along with the protection of religion, culture handed down from time immemorial (सनातन)'. **Who acts:** Nepal, secularism · **What happens:** be, declare, mean, hand down, protect · **To what, where:** secular country, religious cultural freedom, culture, religion 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 (Nepal, secularism), 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:361 # text = Nepal is a secular country, as declared by the Constitution of Nepal 2012 (Part 1, Article 4), where secularism 'means religious, cultural freedom, along with the protection of religion, culture handed down from time immemorial (सनातन)'. 1 Nepal Nepal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 secular secular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 declared declare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Constitution Constitution PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl:agent _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Nepal Nepal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 2012 2012 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 flat _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 17 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Article article NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 20 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 24 secularism secularism NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 27 religious religious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 cultural cultural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 along along ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 religion religion NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 culture culture NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 40 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ _ 41 down down ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 immemorial immemorial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 सनातन सनातन NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Nepal | a secular country | | | | Part *parataxis* | tree rules | | 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | participle | | a secular country *not said here* | | | | the Constitution of Nepal *obl:agent* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | secularism | religious cultural freedom and the protection of religion and culture | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Topic | | 4 | **hand down** | participle | | culture *not said here* | | | time | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **protect** | | | religion | | | | | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 360](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nepal/360/) - next →: [sentence 362](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nepal/362/) - ↑ back to [Nepal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nepal/)