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title: Although proposals for the development of rapid transit in Bangkok h… — Bangkok · tree and pragmatics
description: Although proposals for the development of rapid transit in Bangkok had been made since 1975, it was only in 1999 that the BTS finally began operation. Who acts: transit, BTS. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangkok» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangkok, sentence 400

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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 proposals for the development of rapid transit in Bangkok had been made since 1975, it was only in 1999 that the BTS finally began operation.

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**Who acts:** transit, BTS · **What happens:** make, be, begin, develop · **To what, where:** 1999, operation, rapid transit

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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 (transit, BTS), 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:400
# text = Although proposals for the development of rapid transit in Bangkok had been made since 1975, it was only in 1999 that the BTS finally began operation.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	proposals	proposal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	transit	transit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Bangkok	Bangkok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	since	since	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	BTS	BTS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  | since 1975 | although proposals for the development of rapid transit in Bangkok | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 2 | **is** | past | transit |  |  | 1999 |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the BTS | operation |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality |
| 4 | **develop** |  |  | rapid transit in Bangkok |  |  |  |  | nom development «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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