Thimphu, sentence 315
From Wikipedia, «Thimphu», 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 Institute of Traditional Medicine was set up in 1979 with assistance from World Health Organization (WHO) to develop and popularise Bhutanese herbal medicine, which has been used by the rural people in Bhutan for many centuries.
Who acts: rural people · What happens: set up, develop, popularise, use · To what, where: Institute, 1979, Bhutanese herbal medicine
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Thimphu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rural people), 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 Institute | det |
| 2 | Institute | Institute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Medicine | case |
| 4 | Traditional | Traditional | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Medicine | compound |
| 5 | Medicine | Medicine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Institute | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | aux:pass |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1979 | case |
| 10 | 1979 | 1979 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 set | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 assistance | case |
| 12 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 develop | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Organization | case |
| 14 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Organization | compound |
| 15 | Health | Health | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Organization | compound |
| 16 | Organization | Organization | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 develop | obl |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 WHO | punct |
| 18 | WHO | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 develop | nsubj |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 WHO | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 develop | mark |
| 21 | develop | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 set | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 popularise | cc |
| 23 | popularise | popularise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 develop | conj |
| 24 | Bhutanese | bhutanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 medicine | amod |
| 25 | herbal | herbal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 medicine | amod |
| 26 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 popularise | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 used | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 used | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 used | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 used | aux:pass |
| 31 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 medicine | acl:relcl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 people | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 people | det |
| 34 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 people | amod |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 used | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Bhutan | case |
| 37 | Bhutan | Bhutan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 people | nmod |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 centuries | case |
| 39 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 centuries | amod |
| 40 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 used | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | past · passive | the Institute of Traditional Medicine | 1979 | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1979=Destination | ||||
| 2 | develop | to-infinitive | with assistance; from World Health Organization; WHO nsubj | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from organization=Patient | |||||
| 3 | popularise | present | Bhutanese herbal medicine | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | use | present · perfect · passive | the rural people in Bhutan | Bhutanese herbal medicine | century | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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