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title: Sherpa women wear the chuba with the pangi apron, while Sherpa men w… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics
description: Sherpa women wear the chuba with the pangi apron, while Sherpa men wear shirts with stiff high collar and long sleeves called tetung under the chuba. Who acts: Sherpa women, Sherpa men, long sleeves. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nepal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nepal, sentence 504

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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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Sherpa women wear the chuba with the pangi apron, while Sherpa men wear shirts with stiff high collar and long sleeves called tetung under the chuba.

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**Who acts:** Sherpa women, Sherpa men, long sleeves · **What happens:** wear, call · **To what, where:** chuba, shirts, tetung · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sherpa women, Sherpa men, long sleeves), 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:504
# text = Sherpa women wear the chuba with the pangi apron, while Sherpa men wear shirts with stiff high collar and long sleeves called tetung under the chuba.
1	Sherpa	sherpa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chuba	chuba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	pangi	pangi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Sherpa	Sherpa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	tetung	tetung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	chuba	chuba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | Sherpa women | the chuba |  |  |  | with the pangi apron | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chuba=Source |
| 2 | **wear** | present | Sherpa men | shirts |  |  |  | with stiff high collar and long sleeves | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle | long sleeves *not said here* | tetung under the chuba |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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