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title: In 2023, a new expressway linking Phnom Penh with Sihanoukville came… — Phnom Penh · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2023, a new expressway linking Phnom Penh with Sihanoukville came into operation. Who acts: new expressway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Phnom Penh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Phnom Penh, sentence 212

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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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In 2023, a new expressway linking Phnom Penh with Sihanoukville came into operation.

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**Who acts:** new expressway · **What happens:** link, come · **To what, where:** Phnom, 2023

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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 (new expressway), 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:212
# text = In 2023, a new expressway linking Phnom Penh with Sihanoukville came into operation.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	expressway	expressway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	linking	link	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	Phnom	Phnom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Penh	Penh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Sihanoukville	Sihanoukville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **link** | gerund | a new expressway *not said here* | Phnom |  |  |  | with Sihanoukville | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent phnom=Patient with sihanoukville=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | a new expressway |  |  | 2023 |  | into operation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into operation=Initial\_Location |

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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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