--- title: It describes a magnificent seven-storied pagoda in the middle of a p… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics description: It describes a magnificent seven-storied pagoda in the middle of a palace, with copper-tiled roofs, its balustrade, grills, columns and beams set about with fine and precious stones, and four golden sculptures of Makaras in the four corners of the base spouting water from their mouths like a fountai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nepal/448/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Nepal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nepal/) / 448 # Nepal, sentence 448 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. It describes a magnificent seven-storied pagoda in the middle of a palace, with copper-tiled roofs, its balustrade, grills, columns and beams set about with fine and precious stones, and four golden sculptures of Makaras in the four corners of the base spouting water from their mouths like a fountain, supplied by copper pipes connected to the runnels at the top of the tower. **Who acts:** architecture, tiled roofs, four corners · **What happens:** describe, story, tile, set about, spout, supply · **To what, where:** magnificent storied pagoda, middle, water, mouths, four corners, copper pipes 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 (architecture, tiled roofs, four corners), 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:448 # text = It describes a magnificent seven-storied pagoda in the middle of a palace, with copper-tiled roofs, its balustrade, grills, columns and beams set about with fine and precious stones, and four golden sculptures of Makaras in the four corners of the base spouting water from their mouths like a fountain, supplied by copper pipes connected to the runnels at the top of the tower. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 4 magnificent magnificent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 5 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 storied story VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 pagoda pagoda NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 tiled tile VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 balustrade balustrade NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 grills grill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 columns column NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 beams beam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 set set VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 31 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 40 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 sculptures sculpture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Makaras Makaras PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 nummod _ _ 47 corners corner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 51 spouting spout VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 acl _ _ 52 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 53 from from ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obl _ _ 56 like like ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 supplied supply VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 acl _ _ 61 by by ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 compound _ _ 63 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 obl _ _ 64 connected connect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 63 acl _ _ 65 to to ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 runnels runnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 64 obl _ _ 68 at at ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ _ 71 of of ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 72 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 73 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | present | architecture | a magnificent storied pagoda | | the middle of a palace | | four golden sculptures of Makaras in the four corners of the base *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pagoda=Theme | | 2 | **story** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tile** | participle | | | | | | copper *compound* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **set about** | present | tiled roofs | | | | | with fine stones; about *property* | vn begin-55.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **spout** | gerund | the four corners of the base *not said here* | water | | roofs's mouths like a fountain | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Source | | 6 | **supply** | participle | | the four corners of the base *not said here* | | | | by copper pipes | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **connect** | participle | | copper pipes *not said here* | | the top of the tower | | to the runnels | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to runnel=Co-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 447](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nepal/447/) - next →: [sentence 449](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nepal/449/) - ↑ back to [Nepal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nepal/)