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title: While most of Bangkok's streets are fronted by vernacular shophouses… — Bangkok · tree and pragmatics
description: While most of Bangkok's streets are fronted by vernacular shophouses, the largely unrestricted building euphoria of the 1980s has transformed the city into an urban area of skyscrapers and high rises of contrasting and clashing styles. Who acts: vernacular shophouses, high rises. A sentence of Wikip
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# Bangkok, sentence 214

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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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While most of Bangkok's streets are fronted by vernacular shophouses, the largely unrestricted building euphoria of the 1980s has transformed the city into an urban area of skyscrapers and high rises of contrasting and clashing styles.

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**Who acts:** vernacular shophouses, high rises · **What happens:** front, unrestrict, build, transform, contrast, clash · **To what, where:** most, unrestricted building euphoria, urban area, styles

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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 (vernacular shophouses, high rises), 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:214
# text = While most of Bangkok's streets are fronted by vernacular shophouses, the largely unrestricted building euphoria of the 1980s has transformed the city into an urban area of skyscrapers and high rises of contrasting and clashing styles.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Bangkok	Bangkok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	fronted	front	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	vernacular	vernacular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shophouses	shophous	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	unrestricted	unrestrict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	building	build	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	euphoria	euphoria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	skyscrapers	skyscraper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	rises	rise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
34	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	contrasting	contrast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	clashing	clash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	conj	_	_
38	styles	style	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **front** | present · passive | vernacular shophouses | most of Bangkok's streets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **unrestrict** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | largely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **transform** | present · perfect · passive |  | the unrestricted building euphoria of the 1980s |  | a urban area of skyscrapers and high rises |  | the city *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **contrast** | gerund | high rises *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **clash** | gerund | high rises *not said here* | styles |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location style=Theme |

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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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