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title: Mauryan emperor Ashoka made a pilgrimage to Lumbini, the Buddha's bi… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics
description: Mauryan emperor Ashoka made a pilgrimage to Lumbini, the Buddha's birthplace according to Buddhist traditions, and erected a pillar, the inscriptions on which mark the starting point for properly recorded history of Nepal. Who acts: Mauryan emperor, inscriptions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nepal» wi
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# Nepal, sentence 54

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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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Mauryan emperor Ashoka made a pilgrimage to Lumbini, the Buddha's birthplace according to Buddhist traditions, and erected a pillar, the inscriptions on which mark the starting point for properly recorded history of Nepal.

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**Who acts:** Mauryan emperor, inscriptions · **What happens:** make, accord, erect, mark, record · **To what, where:** pilgrimage, Lumbini, pillar, starting point

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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 (Mauryan emperor, inscriptions), 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:54
# text = Mauryan emperor Ashoka made a pilgrimage to Lumbini, the Buddha's birthplace according to Buddhist traditions, and erected a pillar, the inscriptions on which mark the starting point for properly recorded history of Nepal.
1	Mauryan	mauryan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Ashoka	Ashoka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Lumbini	Lumbini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	birthplace	birthplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	erected	erect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	mark	mark	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	starting	starting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Mauryan emperor | a pilgrimage | Lumbini |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pilgrimage=Product |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **erect** | past | Mauryan emperor *not said here* | a pillar |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillar=Product |
| 4 | **mark** | present | the inscriptions | the starting point |  |  |  | for recorded history of Nepal | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent point=Destination |
| 5 | **record** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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