Bangkok, sentence 214

From Wikipedia, «Bangkok», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

While most of Bangkok's streets are fronted by vernacular shophouses, the largely unrestricted building euphoria of the 1980s has transformed the city into an urban area of skyscrapers and high rises of contrasting and clashing styles.

Who acts: vernacular shophouses, high rises · What happens: front, unrestrict, build, transform, contrast, clash · To what, where: most, unrestricted building euphoria, urban area, styles

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bangkok». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vernacular shophouses, high rises), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	While	while	SCONJ	_	8 fronted	mark
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 fronted	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 streets	case
4	Bangkok	Bangkok	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 streets	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Bangkok	case
6	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 most	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fronted	aux:pass
8	fronted	front	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 transformed	advcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 shophouses	case
10	vernacular	vernacular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shophouses	amod
11	shophouses	shophous	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fronted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fronted	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 euphoria	det
14	largely	largely	ADV	_	15 unrestricted	advmod
15	unrestricted	unrestrict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 euphoria	amod
16	building	build	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 euphoria	amod
17	euphoria	euphoria	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 transformed	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 1980s	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 1980s	det
20	1980s	1980s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	17 euphoria	nmod
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 transformed	aux
22	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 city	det
24	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 transformed	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	28 area	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 area	det
27	urban	urban	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 area	amod
28	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 transformed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 skyscrapers	case
30	skyscrapers	skyscraper	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 area	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rises	cc
32	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rises	amod
33	rises	rise	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 skyscrapers	conj
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 contrasting	mark
35	contrasting	contrast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 rises	acl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 clashing	cc
37	clashing	clash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 contrasting	conj
38	styles	style	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 clashing	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 transformed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	front	present · passive	vernacular shophouses	most of Bangkok's streets			tree rules
2	unrestrict	participle				largely property	tree rules
3	build	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	transform	present · perfect · passive		the unrestricted building euphoria of the 1980s	a urban area of skyscrapers and high rises	the city obj	tree rules
5	contrast	gerund	high rises not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	clash	gerund	high rises not said here	styles			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location style=Theme

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, «Bangkok», 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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Bangkok, sentence 214