Dhaka, sentence 451
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.
Motorcycles comprised half of Dhaka's registered vehicles in 2023, while car ownership rate is only six per cent.
Who acts: Motorcycles, ownership rate · What happens: comprise, register, be · To what, where: half, 2023, six per cent
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 (Motorcycles, ownership rate), 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 | Motorcycles | motorcycle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comprised | nsubj |
| 2 | comprised | comprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 comprised | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 vehicles | case |
| 5 | Dhaka | Dhaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 vehicles | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Dhaka | case |
| 7 | registered | register | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 vehicles | amod |
| 8 | vehicles | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 half | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 2023 | case |
| 10 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 comprised | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cent | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 cent | mark |
| 13 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ownership | compound |
| 14 | ownership | ownership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rate | compound |
| 15 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cent | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 cent | cop |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 cent | advmod |
| 18 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 cent | nummod |
| 19 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cent | compound |
| 20 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comprised | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comprise | past | Motorcycles | half of Dhaka's registered vehicles | 2023 | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme half=Pivot | |||
| 2 | register | participle | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | ownership rate | six per cent | 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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