Dhaka, sentence 280
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.
Except Old Dhaka, which is an old bazaar-style neighbourhood, the layout of the city follows a grid pattern with organic development influenced by traditional South Asian as well as Middle Eastern and Western patterns.
Who acts: you, Old Dhaka, layout · What happens: except, be, follow, influence · To what, where: Old Dhaka, old style neighbourhood, grid pattern, organic development
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: who acts (you, Old Dhaka, layout), 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 | Except | except | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dhaka | amod |
| 3 | Dhaka | Dhaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Except | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 neighbourhood | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 neighbourhood | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 neighbourhood | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 neighbourhood | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 neighbourhood | amod |
| 9 | bazaar | bazaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 style | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bazaar | punct |
| 11 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 neighbourhood | compound |
| 12 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Dhaka | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 layout | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 layout | det |
| 15 | layout | layout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 follows | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 layout | nmod |
| 19 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 neighbourhood | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pattern | det |
| 21 | grid | grid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pattern | compound |
| 22 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 follows | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 development | case |
| 24 | organic | organic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 development | amod |
| 25 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pattern | nmod |
| 26 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 development | acl |
| 27 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 Asian | mark |
| 28 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Asian | amod |
| 29 | South | south | ADV | _ | 30 Asian | advmod |
| 30 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 influenced | advcl |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 35 Eastern | cc |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 34 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Eastern | compound |
| 35 | Eastern | Eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Asian | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 patterns | cc |
| 37 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 patterns | amod |
| 38 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 Eastern | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Except | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | except | imperative | you not said here | Old Dhaka | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Old Dhaka | a old style neighbourhood | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | present | the layout of the city | a grid pattern | with organic development | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme | |||
| 4 | influence | participle | organic development not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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