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title: In the mid-18th century, Prithvi Narayan Shah, the king of Gorkha, s… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics
description: In the mid-18th century, Prithvi Narayan Shah, the king of Gorkha, set out to put together what would become present-day Nepal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nepal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nepal, sentence 80

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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 mid-18th century, Prithvi Narayan Shah, the king of Gorkha, set out to put together what would become present-day Nepal.

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**What happens:** set out, put together, become · **To what, where:** Prithvi, present day

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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: 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:80
# text = In the mid-18th century, Prithvi Narayan Shah, the king of Gorkha, set out to put together what would become present-day Nepal.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mid-18th	mid-18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Prithvi	Prithvi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	Narayan	Narayan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Gorkha	Gorkha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
23	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
26	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | participle · passive |  | Prithvi |  |  | century |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put together** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | would |  | present day |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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