Bangkok, sentence 96
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 geology of the Bangkok area is characterised by a top layer of soft marine clay, known as "Bangkok clay", averaging 15 m in thickness, which overlies an aquifer system consisting of eight known units.
Who acts: top layer, thickness, aquifer system · What happens: characteris, know, average, overlie, consist · To what, where: geology, soft marine clay, 15 m, thickness, aquifer system
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 (top layer, thickness, aquifer system), 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 | 2 geology | det |
| 2 | geology | geology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 characterised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 area | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 area | det |
| 5 | Bangkok | Bangkok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 area | compound |
| 6 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 geology | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 characterised | aux:pass |
| 8 | characterised | characteris | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 layer | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 layer | det |
| 11 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 layer | amod |
| 12 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 characterised | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 clay | case |
| 14 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 clay | amod |
| 15 | marine | marine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clay | compound |
| 16 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 layer | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 known | punct |
| 18 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 clay | acl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 clay | case |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 clay | punct |
| 21 | Bangkok | bangkok | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 clay | compound |
| 22 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 known | obl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 clay | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 averaging | punct |
| 25 | averaging | average | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 known | conj |
| 26 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 m | nummod |
| 27 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 averaging | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 thickness | case |
| 29 | thickness | thickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 averaging | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 overlies | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 overlies | nsubj |
| 32 | overlies | overlie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 thickness | acl:relcl |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 system | det |
| 34 | aquifer | aquifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 system | compound |
| 35 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 overlies | obj |
| 36 | consisting | consist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 system | acl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 units | case |
| 38 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 units | nummod |
| 39 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 units | amod |
| 40 | units | unit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 consisting | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 characterised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | characteris | present · passive | a top layer of soft marine clay | the geology of the Bangkok area | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | soft marine clay not said here | as Bangkok clay | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as clay=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | average | gerund | 15 m | thickness | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent m=Theme | ||||
| 4 | overlie | present | thickness | a aquifer system | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | consist | gerund | a aquifer system not said here | of eight known units | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Bangkok», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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