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title: ‘Penh's hill’) takes its name from the Wat Phnom (lit. — Phnom Penh · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Penh's hill’) takes its name from the Wat Phnom (lit. Who acts: hill. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Phnom Penh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Phnom Penh, sentence 20

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From Wikipedia, [«Phnom Penh»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Penh), 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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‘Penh's hill’) takes its name from the Wat Phnom (lit.

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**Who acts:** hill · **What happens:** take, lit, name · **To what, where:** name, Wat Phnom

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Phnom Penh». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hill), 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:Phnom_Penh:20
# text = ‘Penh's hill’) takes its name from the Wat Phnom (lit.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Penh	Penh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
7	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Wat	Wat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Phnom	Phnom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Penh's hill | hill's name |  | the Wat Phnom |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent name=Theme from phnom=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lit** | participle |  | the Wat Phnom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | hill |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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, «Phnom Penh», 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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