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title: The 1980s were dominated by the dictatorship of Hussain Muhammad Ers… — Bangladesh · tree and pragmatics
description: The 1980s were dominated by the dictatorship of Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who was overthrown in a mass uprising in 1990. Who acts: dictatorship. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangladesh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangladesh, sentence 16

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From Wikipedia, [«Bangladesh»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh), 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 1980s were dominated by the dictatorship of Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who was overthrown in a mass uprising in 1990.

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**Who acts:** dictatorship · **What happens:** dominate, overthrow · **To what, where:** 1980s, Hussain Muhammad, mass uprising

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bangladesh». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dictatorship), 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:Bangladesh:16
# text = The 1980s were dominated by the dictatorship of Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who was overthrown in a mass uprising in 1990.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dominated	dominate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dictatorship	dictatorship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Hussain	Hussain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Muhammad	Muhammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Ershad	Ershad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	uprising	uprising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dominate** | past · passive | the dictatorship of Hussain Muhammad | the 1980s |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **overthrow** | past · passive |  | Hussain Muhammad |  | a mass uprising |  | in 1990 | 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, «Bangladesh», 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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