Bangkok, sentence 459
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.
Over the past few decades, the general trend of pursuing a university degree has prompted the founding of new universities to meet the needs of Thai students.
Who acts: general trend · What happens: pursue, prompt, meet, found, need · To what, where: university degree, general trend, needs, new universities, Thai students
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 (general trend), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 5 decades | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 decades | det |
| 3 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 decades | amod |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 decades | amod |
| 5 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 prompted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 decades | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trend | det |
| 8 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trend | amod |
| 9 | trend | trend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prompted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 pursuing | mark |
| 11 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 trend | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 degree | det |
| 13 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 degree | compound |
| 14 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pursuing | obj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 prompted | aux |
| 16 | prompted | prompt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 founding | det |
| 18 | founding | founding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prompted | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 universities | case |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 universities | amod |
| 21 | universities | university | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 founding | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 meet | mark |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 prompted | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 needs | det |
| 25 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 meet | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 students | case |
| 27 | Thai | Thai | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 students | amod |
| 28 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 needs | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 prompted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | gerund | the general trend not said here | a university degree | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent degree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prompt | present · perfect · passive | the general trend | decade | the founding of new universities obj | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme founding=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the needs of Thai students | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | found | new universities | nom founding «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | need | Thai students | nom need «state 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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