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title: Phnom" is Khmer for "hill" and Penh's hill took on the name of the f… — Phnom Penh · tree and pragmatics
description: Phnom" is Khmer for "hill" and Penh's hill took on the name of the founder, and the area around it became known after the hill. Who acts: Phnom Khmer. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Phnom Penh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Phnom Penh, sentence 37

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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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Phnom" is Khmer for "hill" and Penh's hill took on the name of the founder, and the area around it became known after the hill.

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**Who acts:** Phnom Khmer · **What happens:** be, take, know, name · **To what, where:** Phnom Khmer, name, area, founder

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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 (Phnom Khmer), 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:37
# text = Phnom" is Khmer for "hill" and Penh's hill took on the name of the founder, and the area around it became known after the hill.
1	Phnom	phnom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Khmer	Khmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	Penh	Penh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	founder	founder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	around	around	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Phnom Khmer |  |  |  | for hill and Penh's hill | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | past | Phnom Khmer |  |  | the name of the founder |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on name=Destination |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the area around hill |  |  | after the hill |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **name** *in a quote* |  |  | the founder |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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, «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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