Bangkok, sentence 400
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 proposals for the development of rapid transit in Bangkok had been made since 1975, it was only in 1999 that the BTS finally began operation.
Who acts: transit, BTS · What happens: make, be, begin, develop · To what, where: 1999, operation, rapid transit
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 (transit, BTS), 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 | _ | 2 proposals | case |
| 2 | proposals | proposal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | obl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 development | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 development | det |
| 5 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 proposals | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 transit | case |
| 7 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 transit | amod |
| 8 | transit | transit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 development | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Bangkok | case |
| 10 | Bangkok | Bangkok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 transit | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 made | aux:pass |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | since | since | ADP | _ | 15 1975 | case |
| 15 | 1975 | 1975 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 made | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 1999 | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 1999 | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 1999 | cop |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 1999 | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 1999 | case |
| 21 | 1999 | 1999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 made | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 began | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 BTS | det |
| 24 | BTS | BTS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 began | nsubj |
| 25 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 26 began | advmod |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 1999 | advcl |
| 27 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 began | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | since 1975 | although proposals for the development of rapid transit in Bangkok | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 2 | is | past | transit | 1999 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the BTS | operation | finally property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | develop | rapid transit in Bangkok | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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