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title: Tidal flat ecosystems existed on the coast; however, many have been… — Bangkok · tree and pragmatics
description: Tidal flat ecosystems existed on the coast; however, many have been reclaimed for agriculture, aquaculture, and salt works. Who acts: Tidal flat ecosystems, salt. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangkok» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangkok, sentence 113

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From Wikipedia, [«Bangkok»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Tidal flat ecosystems existed on the coast; however, many have been reclaimed for agriculture, aquaculture, and salt works.

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**Who acts:** Tidal flat ecosystems, salt · **What happens:** exist, reclaim, work · **To what, where:** coast, many

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bangkok». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tidal flat ecosystems, salt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bangkok:113
# text = Tidal flat ecosystems existed on the coast; however, many have been reclaimed for agriculture, aquaculture, and salt works.
1	Tidal	tidal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ecosystems	ecosystem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	however	however	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	reclaimed	reclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	aquaculture	aquaculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | participle | Tidal flat ecosystems |  |  | the coast |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coast=Location |
| 2 | **reclaim** | present · perfect · passive |  | many |  |  |  | for agriculture and aquaculture; however *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for agriculture=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **work** | present | salt |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bangkok», 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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