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title: Nepal came to be established as a land of spirituality and refuge in… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics
description: Nepal came to be established as a land of spirituality and refuge in the intervening centuries, played an important role in transmitting Buddhism to East Asia via Tibet, and helped preserve Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts. Who acts: Nepal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nepal» with its dependency tree an
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# Nepal, sentence 52

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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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Nepal came to be established as a land of spirituality and refuge in the intervening centuries, played an important role in transmitting Buddhism to East Asia via Tibet, and helped preserve Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts.

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**Who acts:** Nepal · **What happens:** come, establish, intervene, play, transmit, help · **To what, where:** important role, Buddhism, East Asia, Hindu

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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 (Nepal), 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:52
# text = Nepal came to be established as a land of spirituality and refuge in the intervening centuries, played an important role in transmitting Buddhism to East Asia via Tibet, and helped preserve Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts.
1	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	spirituality	spirituality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	intervening	intervene	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	transmitting	transmit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
24	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	via	via	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Tibet	Tibet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
34	Hindu	Hindu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	manuscripts	manuscript	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Nepal |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **establish** | to-infinitive · passive | Nepal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a land of spirituality and refuge in the intervening centuries | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» |
| 3 | **intervene** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | past | Nepal *not said here* | a important role |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 5 | **transmit** | gerund | Nepal *not said here* | Buddhism | East Asia |  |  | via Tibet | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent buddhism=Theme to asia=Destination |
| 6 | **help** | past | Nepal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **preserve** | infinitive | Nepal *not said here* |  | Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hindu=Beneficiary |

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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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