Bangkok, sentence 303
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.
Although prostitution is technically illegal and is rarely openly discussed in Thailand, it commonly takes place among massage parlours, saunas, and hourly hotels, serving foreign tourists as well as locals.
Who acts: prostitution · What happens: be, discuss, take, serve · To what, where: Thailand, prostitution, foreign tourists
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 (prostitution), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 5 illegal | mark |
| 2 | prostitution | prostitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 illegal | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 illegal | cop |
| 4 | technically | technically | ADV | _ | 5 illegal | advmod |
| 5 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 takes | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 discussed | cc |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 discussed | aux:pass |
| 8 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 10 discussed | advmod |
| 9 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 10 discussed | advmod |
| 10 | discussed | discuss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 illegal | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Thailand | case |
| 12 | Thailand | Thailand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 discussed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 illegal | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 takes | expl |
| 15 | commonly | commonly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 it | amod |
| 16 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 takes | obj |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 parlours | case |
| 19 | massage | massage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 parlours | compound |
| 20 | parlours | parlour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 takes | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saunas | punct |
| 22 | saunas | sauna | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 parlours | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hotels | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hotels | cc |
| 25 | hourly | hourly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hotels | amod |
| 26 | hotels | hotel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 parlours | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 serving | punct |
| 28 | serving | serve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 takes | advcl |
| 29 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tourists | amod |
| 30 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 serving | obj |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 34 locals | cc |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 34 | locals | local | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 serving | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | prostitution | illegal, technically property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discuss speech: other | present · passive | prostitution not said here | Thailand | openly, rarely property | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V» | |||
| 3 | take | present | prostitution | among massage parlours and saunas and hourly hotels; place obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | serve | gerund | foreign tourists | locals conj | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tourist=Attribute |
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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