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title: The Asian investment boom in the 1980s and 1990s led many multinatio… — Bangkok · tree and pragmatics
description: The Asian investment boom in the 1980s and 1990s led many multinational corporations to locate their regional headquarters in Bangkok. Who acts: Asian investment boom, many multinational corporations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangkok» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangkok, sentence 8

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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 Asian investment boom in the 1980s and 1990s led many multinational corporations to locate their regional headquarters in Bangkok.

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**Who acts:** Asian investment boom, many multinational corporations · **What happens:** lead, locate · **To what, where:** many multinational corporations, regional headquarters, Bangkok

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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 (Asian investment boom, many multinational corporations), 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:8
# text = The Asian investment boom in the 1980s and 1990s led many multinational corporations to locate their regional headquarters in Bangkok.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
10	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	multinational	multinational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	corporations	corporation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	locate	locate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Bangkok	Bangkok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the Asian investment boom in the 1980s and 1990s | many multinational corporations |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent corporation=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **locate** | to-infinitive | many multinational corporations *not said here* | corporations's regional headquarters |  | Bangkok |  |  | 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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