--- title: Bangkok is a cosmopolitan city; the census showed that it is home to… — Bangkok · tree and pragmatics description: Bangkok is a cosmopolitan city; the census showed that it is home to 567,120 expatriates from Asian countries (including 71,024 Chinese and 63,069 Japanese nationals), 88,177 from Europe, 32,241 from the Americas, 5,856 from Oceania, and 5,758 from Africa. Who acts: Bangkok, census. 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Bangkok is a cosmopolitan city; the census showed that it is home to 567,120 expatriates from Asian countries (including 71,024 Chinese and 63,069 Japanese nationals), 88,177 from Europe, 32,241 from the Americas, 5,856 from Oceania, and 5,758 from Africa. **Who acts:** Bangkok, census · **What happens:** be, show, include · **To what, where:** cosmopolitan city, 5,758, 567,120 expatriates, Asian countries · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Bangkok, census), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Bangkok:236 # text = Bangkok is a cosmopolitan city; the census showed that it is home to 567,120 expatriates from Asian countries (including 71,024 Chinese and 63,069 Japanese nationals), 88,177 from Europe, 32,241 from the Americas, 5,856 from Oceania, and 5,758 from Africa. 1 Bangkok bangkok NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 cosmopolitan cosmopolitan NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 census census NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 home home ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 567,120 567,120 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 expatriates expatriate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 ccomp _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 including include VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 case _ _ 22 71,024 71,024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 23 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 63,069 63,069 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 Japanese Japanese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 nationals national NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 88,177 88,177 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 conj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 32,241 32,241 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 conj _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Americas AMERICAS PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 5,856 5,856 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 conj _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Oceania Oceania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 5,758 5,758 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Bangkok | a cosmopolitan city | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **show** | past | the census | 5,758 from Africa | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent city=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | present | census | 567,120 expatriates | | Asian countries include 71,024 Chinese 63,069 Japanese nationals | | 88,177 from Europe *conj* | tree rules | | 4 | **include** | gerund | | | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 235](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bangkok/235/) - next →: [sentence 237](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bangkok/237/) - ↑ back to [Bangkok](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bangkok/)