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title: Although prostitution is technically illegal and is rarely openly di… — Bangkok · tree and pragmatics
description: Although prostitution is technically illegal and is rarely openly discussed in Thailand, it commonly takes place among massage parlours, saunas, and hourly hotels, serving foreign tourists as well as locals. Who acts: prostitution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangkok» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Bangkok, sentence 303

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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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Although prostitution is technically illegal and is rarely openly discussed in Thailand, it commonly takes place among massage parlours, saunas, and hourly hotels, serving foreign tourists as well as locals.

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**Who acts:** prostitution · **What happens:** be, discuss, take, serve · **To what, where:** Thailand, prostitution, foreign tourists

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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 (prostitution), 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:303
# text = Although prostitution is technically illegal and is rarely openly discussed in Thailand, it commonly takes place among massage parlours, saunas, and hourly hotels, serving foreign tourists as well as locals.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	prostitution	prostitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	technically	technically	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
8	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	openly	openly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	expl	_	_
15	commonly	commonly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	massage	massage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	parlours	parlour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	saunas	sauna	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	hourly	hourly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hotels	hotel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
29	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	34	cc	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	fixed	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
34	locals	local	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | prostitution |  |  |  |  | illegal, technically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **discuss** *speech: other* | present · passive | prostitution *not said here* |  |  | Thailand |  | openly, rarely *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **take** | present |  | prostitution |  |  |  | among massage parlours and saunas and hourly hotels; place *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **serve** | gerund |  | foreign tourists |  |  |  | locals *conj* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tourist=Attribute |

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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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