Dhaka, sentence 153
From Wikipedia, «Dhaka», 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.
This period is described as being "the colonial-era part of Dhaka, developed by the British during the early 20th century.
What happens: describe, be, develop · To what, where: period, era part
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dhaka». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 period | det |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 described | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 described | aux:pass |
| 4 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 part | case |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 part | cop |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 part | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 era | det |
| 9 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 era | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 colonial | punct |
| 11 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 part | compound |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 described | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Dhaka | case |
| 14 | Dhaka | Dhaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 part | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 developed | punct |
| 16 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 part | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 British | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 British | det |
| 19 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 developed | obl |
| 20 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 century | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 century | det |
| 22 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 century | amod |
| 23 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 24 century | amod |
| 24 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 developed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | this period | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | gerund | as era part; of Dhaka | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | develop in a quote | participle | era part not said here | century | by the British | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by british=Location |
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, «Dhaka», 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dhaka/153/