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title: Urdu-speaking stranded Pakistanis were given citizenship by the Supr… — Bangladesh · tree and pragmatics
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# Bangladesh, sentence 313

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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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Urdu-speaking stranded Pakistanis were given citizenship by the Supreme Court in 2008.

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**Who acts:** Supreme Court · **What happens:** speak, strand, give · **To what, where:** speaking stranded Pakistanis, 2008 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Supreme Court), 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:313
# text = Urdu-speaking stranded Pakistanis were given citizenship by the Supreme Court in 2008.
1	Urdu	urdu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
4	stranded	strand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	Pakistanis	Pakistani	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	citizenship	citizenship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **strand** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past · passive | the Supreme Court | speaking stranded Pakistanis |  | 2008 |  | citizenship *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient citizenship=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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