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title: Ludo, snakes and ladders and carrom are popular pastimes. — Nepal · tree and pragmatics
description: Ludo, snakes and ladders and carrom are popular pastimes. Who acts: Ludo snakes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nepal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nepal, sentence 548

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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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Ludo, snakes and ladders and carrom are popular pastimes.

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**Who acts:** Ludo snakes · **What happens:** carrom, be · **To what, where:** popular pastimes

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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 (Ludo snakes), 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:548
# text = Ludo, snakes and ladders and carrom are popular pastimes.
1	Ludo	Ludo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	carrom	carrom	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pastimes	pastime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carrom** | present | Ludo snakes and ladders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Ludo snakes and ladders | popular pastimes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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