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title: The Raidāk River raises in the snow fields at an altitude of about 7… — Thimphu · tree and pragmatics
description: The Raidāk River raises in the snow fields at an altitude of about 7000 m. It has many tributaries that flow from the Himalayan peaks that largely dictate the topography of the Thimphu valley. Who acts: Raidāk River, River, many tributaries, that. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thimphu» with its depende
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# Thimphu, sentence 36

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From Wikipedia, [«Thimphu»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimphu), 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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The Raidāk River raises in the snow fields at an altitude of about 7000 m. It has many tributaries that flow from the Himalayan peaks that largely dictate the topography of the Thimphu valley.

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**Who acts:** Raidāk River, River, many tributaries, that · **What happens:** raise, have, flow, peak, dictate · **To what, where:** snow fields, many tributaries, Himalayan, altitude, topography

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Thimphu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raidāk River, River, many tributaries, that), 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:Thimphu:36
# text = The Raidāk River raises in the snow fields at an altitude of about 7000 m. It has many tributaries that flow from the Himalayan peaks that largely dictate the topography of the Thimphu valley.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Raidāk	Raidāk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	raises	raise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	altitude	altitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	7000	7000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	m.	m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tributaries	tributary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	flow	flow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Himalayan	Himalayan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	peaks	peak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
27	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	dictate	dictate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	topography	topography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Thimphu	Thimphu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present | the Raidāk River |  |  | the snow fields |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in field=Destination |
| 2 | **have** | present | River | many tributaries |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tributary=Patient |
| 3 | **flow** | present | many tributaries |  |  | the Himalayan |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **peak** | present |  |  |  | a altitude of 7000 m. |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dictate** *speech: other* | present | that | the topography of the Thimphu valley |  |  |  | largely *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent topography=Topic |

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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, «Thimphu», 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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