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title: Despite their popularity, taxis have gained a bad reputation for oft… — Bangkok · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite their popularity, taxis have gained a bad reputation for often refusing passengers when the requested route is not to the driver. Who acts: requested route. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangkok» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangkok, sentence 439

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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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Despite their popularity, taxis have gained a bad reputation for often refusing passengers when the requested route is not to the driver.

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**Who acts:** requested route · **What happens:** gain, refuse, request, not be · **To what, where:** taxis, passengers

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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 (requested route), 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:439
# text = Despite their popularity, taxis have gained a bad reputation for often refusing passengers when the requested route is not to the driver.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	popularity	popularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	taxis	taxi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	refusing	refuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	requested	request	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | present · perfect · passive |  | taxis |  |  |  | despite Taxis's popularity; a bad reputation *obj* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary reputation=Theme |
| 2 | **refuse** | gerund |  | passengers |  |  |  | often *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=Theme |
| 3 | **request** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | the requested route |  |  |  |  | to the driver | tree rules |

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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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