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title: It has been described as the world's bloodiest festival due to the l… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics
description: It has been described as the world's bloodiest festival due to the large-scale slaughter of animals and birds, including buffaloes, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, pigeons, pigs, rats, and white mice. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nepal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nepal, sentence 417

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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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It has been described as the world's bloodiest festival due to the large-scale slaughter of animals and birds, including buffaloes, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, pigeons, pigs, rats, and white mice.

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**What happens:** describe, slaughter · **To what, where:** event, animals

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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: 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:417
# text = It has been described as the world's bloodiest festival due to the large-scale slaughter of animals and birds, including buffaloes, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, pigeons, pigs, rats, and white mice.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	bloodiest	bloody	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	including	including	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · perfect · passive |  | event |  |  |  | as the world's bloodiest festival; due the scale slaughter of animals  goats and sheep and chickens and ducks and birds and buffaloes and pigeons and pigs and rats; white mice *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as festival=Attribute |
| 2 | **slaughter** |  |  | animals  goats and sheep and chickens and ducks and birds and buffaloes |  |  |  |  | nom slaughter «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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**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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