Bangkok, sentence 439
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.
Despite their popularity, taxis have gained a bad reputation for often refusing passengers when the requested route is not to the driver.
Who acts: requested route · What happens: gain, refuse, request, not be · To what, where: taxis, passengers
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 (requested route), 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 3 popularity | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 popularity | nmod:poss |
| 3 | popularity | popularity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gained | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 popularity | punct |
| 5 | taxis | taxi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gained | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gained | aux |
| 7 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 reputation | det |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 reputation | amod |
| 10 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gained | obj |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 refusing | mark |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 refusing | advmod |
| 13 | refusing | refuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 gained | advcl |
| 14 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 refusing | obj |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 driver | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 route | det |
| 17 | requested | request | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 route | amod |
| 18 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 driver | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 driver | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 driver | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 driver | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 driver | det |
| 23 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 refusing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | present · perfect · passive | taxis | despite Taxis's popularity; a bad reputation obj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary reputation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | refuse | gerund | passengers | often property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=Theme | ||||
| 3 | request | participle | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not is | present | the requested route | to the driver | tree rules |
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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