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title: In its more modern form, it has been used to cover the head, and som… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics
description: In its more modern form, it has been used to cover the head, and sometimes the face, as a veil, particularly in the Terai. Who acts: sari. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nepal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nepal, sentence 482

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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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In its more modern form, it has been used to cover the head, and sometimes the face, as a veil, particularly in the Terai.

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**Who acts:** sari · **What happens:** use, cover, form · **To what, where:** sari, modern form, head

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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 (sari), 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:482
# text = In its more modern form, it has been used to cover the head, and sometimes the face, as a veil, particularly in the Terai.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Terai	Terai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · perfect · passive |  | sari |  | sari's modern form |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **cover** | to-infinitive |  | the head |  |  |  | as a veil; in the Terai; the face *obl* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination in terai=Theme |
| 3 | **form** |  | sari |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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