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title: Bangkok's role as a US military R&R destination boosted its tourism… — Bangkok · tree and pragmatics
description: Bangkok's role as a US military R&R destination boosted its tourism industry, as well as firmly establishing it as a sex tourism destination. Who acts: role. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangkok» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangkok, sentence 28

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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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Bangkok's role as a US military R&R destination boosted its tourism industry, as well as firmly establishing it as a sex tourism destination.

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**Who acts:** role · **What happens:** boost, establish · **To what, where:** tourism industry, industry

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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 (role), 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:28
# text = Bangkok's role as a US military R&R destination boosted its tourism industry, as well as firmly establishing it as a sex tourism destination.
1	Bangkok	Bangkok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	R	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	R	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	destination	destination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	boosted	boost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tourism	tourism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
20	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	establishing	establish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	tourism	tourism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	destination	destination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boost** | past | Bangkok's role as a US military R & R destination | role's tourism industry |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent industry=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | gerund | Bangkok's role as a US military R & R destination *not said here* | industry |  |  |  | as a tourism destination; firmly *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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