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title: A period of reconstruction began, spurred by the continuing stabilit… — Phnom Penh · tree and pragmatics
description: A period of reconstruction began, spurred by the continuing stability of government, attracting new foreign investment and aid by countries including France, Australia, and Japan. Who acts: period. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Phnom Penh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Phnom Penh, sentence 54

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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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A period of reconstruction began, spurred by the continuing stability of government, attracting new foreign investment and aid by countries including France, Australia, and Japan.

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**Who acts:** period · **What happens:** begin, spur, continue, attract, include · **To what, where:** new foreign investment

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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 (period), 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:54
# text = A period of reconstruction began, spurred by the continuing stability of government, attracting new foreign investment and aid by countries including France, Australia, and Japan.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	reconstruction	reconstruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	spurred	spur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	stability	stability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	attracting	attract	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
23	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	case	_	_
24	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | a period of reconstruction |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **spur** | participle | a period of reconstruction *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the continuing stability of government | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **continue** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **attract** | gerund | a period of reconstruction *not said here* | new foreign investment and aid |  |  |  | by countries include France and Australia and Japan | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent investment=Patient |
| 5 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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