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title: Bangladesh is divided into eight administrative divisions, each name… — Bangladesh · tree and pragmatics
description: Bangladesh is divided into eight administrative divisions, each named after its headquarters: Barisal (officially Barishal), Chittagong (officially Chattogram), Dhaka, Khulna, Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Rangpur, and Sylhet. Who acts: eight administrative divisions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangladesh» 
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# Bangladesh, sentence 195

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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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Bangladesh is divided into eight administrative divisions, each named after its headquarters: Barisal (officially Barishal), Chittagong (officially Chattogram), Dhaka, Khulna, Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Rangpur, and Sylhet.

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**Who acts:** eight administrative divisions · **What happens:** divide, name · **To what, where:** Bangladesh, eight administrative divisions, each

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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 (eight administrative divisions), 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:195
# text = Bangladesh is divided into eight administrative divisions, each named after its headquarters: Barisal (officially Barishal), Chittagong (officially Chattogram), Dhaka, Khulna, Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Rangpur, and Sylhet.
1	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	divisions	division	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Barisal	Barisal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	Barishal	Barishal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Chittagong	Chittagong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	Chattogram	Chattogram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Dhaka	Dhaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Khulna	Khulna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Mymensingh	Mymensingh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Rajshahi	Rajshahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Rangpur	Rangpur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Sylhet	Sylhet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | present · passive |  | Bangladesh |  | eight administrative divisions |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle · passive | eight administrative divisions *not said here* | each |  |  | after government's headquarters |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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