Bangladesh, sentence 10

From Wikipedia, «Bangladesh», 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 Battle of Plassey in 1757 began British colonial rule, which lasted nearly two centuries; colonial policies redirected wealth from Bengal to Britain, while the region itself suffered repeated deadly famines.

Who acts: Battle, British colonial rule, colonial policies · What happens: begin, last, redirect, repeat · To what, where: British colonial rule, wealth, Britain, Bengal, region

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bangladesh». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Battle, British colonial rule, colonial policies), 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 Battle	det
2	Battle	Battle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Plassey	case
4	Plassey	Plassey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Battle	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1757	case
6	1757	1757	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Battle	nmod
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rule	amod
9	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rule	amod
10	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lasted	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lasted	nsubj
13	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rule	acl:relcl
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	15 two	advmod
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 centuries	nummod
16	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lasted	obl:unmarked
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 policies	punct
18	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 policies	amod
19	policies	policy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 began	parataxis
20	redirected	redirect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 policies	acl
21	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 redirected	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 Bengal	case
23	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 redirected	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Britain	case
25	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 redirected	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 repeated	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 repeated	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 region	det
29	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 repeated	nsubj:pass
30	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	29 region	nmod:unmarked
31	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 repeated	aux:pass
32	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 began	parataxis
33	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 famines	amod
34	famines	famine	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 repeated	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Battle of Plassey in 1757	British colonial rule				colonial policies parataxis	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Eventuality
2	last	past	British colonial rule				century		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	redirect	participle	colonial policies not said here	wealth	Britain	Bengal			tree rules
4	repeat	past · passive		the region region				deadly famines obj	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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Bangladesh», 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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Bangladesh, sentence 10