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The Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated the entire city after taking it, in what has been described as a death march: François Ponchaud wrote that "I shall never forget one cripple who had neither hands nor feet, writhing along the ground like a severed worm, or a weeping father carrying his ten-year old daughter wrapped in a sheet tied around his neck like a sling, or the man with his foot dangling at the end of a leg to which it was attached by nothing but skin"; Jon Swain recalled that the Khmer Rouge were "tipping out patients from the hospitals like garbage into the streets.... **Who acts:** Khmer Rouge, François, Reports, one cripple, weeping father, man · **What happens:** evacuate, take, describe, write, not forget, have · **To what, where:** entire city, city, one cripple, hands, old daughter, sheet · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Khmer Rouge, François, Reports, one cripple), 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:50 # text = The Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated the entire city after taking it, in what has been described as a death march: François Ponchaud wrote that "I shall never forget one cripple who had neither hands nor feet, writhing along the ground like a severed worm, or a weeping father carrying his ten-year old daughter wrapped in a sheet tied around his neck like a sling, or the man with his foot dangling at the end of a leg to which it was attached by nothing but skin"; Jon Swain recalled that the Khmer Rouge were "tipping out patients from the hospitals like garbage into the streets.... 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Khmer Khmer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Rouge Rouge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 forcibly forcibly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 evacuated evacuate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 entire entire ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 after after SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 described describe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 march march NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 François François PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 Ponchaud Ponchaud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 25 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 cripple cripple NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 neither neither DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 39 cc _ _ 39 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 writhing writhing NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 42 along along ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 45 like like ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 severed sever VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 amod _ _ 48 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 50 or or CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 weeping weeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 advcl _ _ 54 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 53 acl _ _ 55 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 60 nmod:poss _ _ 56 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 58 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 - 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PUNCT , _ 99 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **evacuate** | past | the Khmer Rouge | the entire city | | | | forcibly *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | | 2 | **take** | gerund | the Khmer Rouge *not said here* | city | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **describe** | present · perfect · passive | | | | | | as a death march; what *nsubj:pass* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as march=Attribute | | 4 | **write** | past | François | | | | | a weeping father or the man with François's foot *advcl* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **forget** *in a quote* | shall | Reports from journalists *= report* | one cripple and writhing | | | | along the ground; like a severed worm | tree rules | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | past | one cripple and writhing | neither hands nor feet | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 7 | **sever** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **carry** *in a quote* | gerund | a weeping father or the man with François's foot *not said here* | François's old daughter | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **wrap** *in a quote* | participle | | François's old daughter *not said here* | | a sheet | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in sheet=Destination | | 10 | **tie** *in a quote* | participle | | a sheet *not said here* | | François's neck | | like a sling | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 11 | **dangle** *in a quote* | gerund | the man with François's foot *not said here* | | | | at the end of a leg | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location | | 12 | **attach** *in a quote* | past · passive | | Rouge | | | | to a leg; by nothing skin | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to which=Co-Patient | | 13 | **recall** | past | Jon | | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 14 | **tip out** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the Khmer Rouge | patients | | the hospitals like garbage | | into the streets | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent patient=Theme into street=Destination from hospital=Initial\_Location | 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Phnom_Penh/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Phnom_Penh/51/) - ↑ back to [Phnom Penh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Phnom_Penh/)