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title: The BMA is largely responsible for overseeing the construction and m… — Bangkok · tree and pragmatics
description: The BMA is largely responsible for overseeing the construction and maintenance of the road network and transport systems through its Public Works Department and Traffic and Transportation Department. Who acts: BMA, Public. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangkok» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangkok, sentence 386

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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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The BMA is largely responsible for overseeing the construction and maintenance of the road network and transport systems through its Public Works Department and Traffic and Transportation Department.

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**Who acts:** BMA, Public · **What happens:** be, oversee, work, maintain · **To what, where:** construction, Department, road network

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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 (BMA, Public), 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:386
# text = The BMA is largely responsible for overseeing the construction and maintenance of the road network and transport systems through its Public Works Department and Traffic and Transportation Department.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	BMA	BMA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	overseeing	oversee	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	maintenance	maintenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	systems	system	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Public	Public	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	Works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
23	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Traffic	Traffic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	Transportation	Transportation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the BMA |  |  |  |  | largely, responsible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **oversee** | gerund | the BMA *not said here* | the construction and maintenance of the road network and transport systems |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent construction=Eventuality |
| 3 | **work** | present | system's Public | Department and Traffic and Transportation Department |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent department=Material |
| 4 | **maintain** |  |  | the road network and transport systems |  |  |  |  | nom maintenance «act transitive»: of=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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