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title: Over the past few decades, the general trend of pursuing a universit… — Bangkok · tree and pragmatics
description: Over the past few decades, the general trend of pursuing a university degree has prompted the founding of new universities to meet the needs of Thai students. Who acts: general trend. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangkok» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangkok, sentence 459

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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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Over the past few decades, the general trend of pursuing a university degree has prompted the founding of new universities to meet the needs of Thai students.

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**Who acts:** general trend · **What happens:** pursue, prompt, meet, found, need · **To what, where:** university degree, general trend, needs, new universities, Thai students

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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 (general trend), 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:459
# text = Over the past few decades, the general trend of pursuing a university degree has prompted the founding of new universities to meet the needs of Thai students.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	trend	trend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	prompted	prompt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	founding	founding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Thai	Thai	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | gerund | the general trend *not said here* | a university degree |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent degree=Theme |
| 2 | **prompt** | present · perfect · passive |  | the general trend |  |  | decade | the founding of new universities *obj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme founding=Eventuality |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  | the needs of Thai students |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **found** |  |  | new universities |  |  |  |  | nom founding «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **need** |  |  | Thai students |  |  |  |  | nom need «state 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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