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title: In the eastern hills, a confederation of Kirat principalities ruled… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics
description: In the eastern hills, a confederation of Kirat principalities ruled the area between Kathmandu and Bengal. Who acts: confederation, Kirat principalities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nepal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nepal, sentence 68

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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 the eastern hills, a confederation of Kirat principalities ruled the area between Kathmandu and Bengal.

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**Who acts:** confederation, Kirat principalities · **What happens:** rule, confederate · **To what, where:** area, eastern hills

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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 (confederation, Kirat principalities), 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:68
# text = In the eastern hills, a confederation of Kirat principalities ruled the area between Kathmandu and Bengal.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	confederation	confederation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Kirat	Kirat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	principalities	principality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Kathmandu	Kathmandu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | a confederation of Kirat principalities | the area |  | the eastern hills |  | between Kathmandu and Bengal | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme |
| 2 | **confederate** |  | Kirat principalities |  |  |  |  |  | nom confederation «state intransitive»: of=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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