--- title: To house the new-found sacred objects, Penh raised a hill on the wes… — Phnom Penh · tree and pragmatics description: To house the new-found sacred objects, Penh raised a hill on the west bank of the Tonle Sap River and crowned it with a shrine, later known as Wat Phnom at the north end of central Phnom Penh. " Who acts: Penh. 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To house the new-found sacred objects, Penh raised a hill on the west bank of the Tonle Sap River and crowned it with a shrine, later known as Wat Phnom at the north end of central Phnom Penh. " **Who acts:** Penh · **What happens:** find, raise, crown, know · **To what, where:** hill, west bank, north end 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 (Penh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:36 # text = To house the new-found sacred objects, Penh raised a hill on the west bank of the Tonle Sap River and crowned it with a shrine, later known as Wat Phnom at the north end of central Phnom Penh. " 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 advcl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 7 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 Penh Penh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 west west ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 Tonle Tonle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 Sap Sap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 crowned crown VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 shrine shrine NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 31 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Wat Wat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 Phnom Phnom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 flat _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 north north ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 Phnom Phnom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 Penh Penh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | participle | | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **raise** | past | Penh | a hill | | the west bank of the Tonle Sap River | | house the found sacred objects *advcl* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hill=Theme on bank=Destination | | 3 | **crown** | past | Penh *not said here* | hill | | | | with a shrine | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with shrine=Theme | | 4 | **know** | participle | Penh *not said here* | | | | at the north end of central Phnom | as Wat; late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as wat=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Phnom_Penh/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Phnom_Penh/37/) - ↑ back to [Phnom Penh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Phnom_Penh/)