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title: In the past, under a local tradition, women gathered on the hill to… — Ngerulmud · tree and pragmatics
description: In the past, under a local tradition, women gathered on the hill to offer fermented angelfish to the gods. Who acts: women. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ngerulmud» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ngerulmud, sentence 7

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From Wikipedia, [«Ngerulmud»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngerulmud), 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 past, under a local tradition, women gathered on the hill to offer fermented angelfish to the gods.

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**Who acts:** women · **What happens:** gather, offer, ferment · **To what, where:** past, fermented angelfish, gods

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ngerulmud». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women), 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:Ngerulmud:7
# text = In the past, under a local tradition, women gathered on the hill to offer fermented angelfish to the gods.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	fermented	ferment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	angelfish	angelfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | women |  |  | the past and a local tradition |  | on the hill | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **offer** | to-infinitive | women *not said here* | fermented angelfish | the gods |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent angelfish=Theme to god=Goal |
| 3 | **ferment** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: 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, «Ngerulmud», 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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