Bangkok, sentence 8
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.
The Asian investment boom in the 1980s and 1990s led many multinational corporations to locate their regional headquarters in Bangkok.
Who acts: Asian investment boom, many multinational corporations · What happens: lead, locate · To what, where: many multinational corporations, regional headquarters, Bangkok
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 (Asian investment boom, many multinational corporations), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boom | det |
| 2 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boom | amod |
| 3 | investment | investment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boom | compound |
| 4 | boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1980s | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 1980s | det |
| 7 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 boom | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 1990s | cc |
| 9 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 7 1980s | conj |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 corporations | amod |
| 12 | multinational | multinational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 corporations | amod |
| 13 | corporations | corporation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 led | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 locate | mark |
| 15 | locate | locate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 led | xcomp |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 headquarters | nmod:poss |
| 17 | regional | regional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 headquarters | amod |
| 18 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 locate | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Bangkok | case |
| 20 | Bangkok | Bangkok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 locate | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the Asian investment boom in the 1980s and 1990s | many multinational corporations | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent corporation=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | locate | to-infinitive | many multinational corporations not said here | corporations's regional headquarters | Bangkok | 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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