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title: The official and predominant language of Bangladesh is Bengali, whic… — Bangladesh · tree and pragmatics
description: The official and predominant language of Bangladesh is Bengali, which is spoken by more than 99% of the population as their native language. Who acts: official language. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangladesh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangladesh, sentence 319

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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 official and predominant language of Bangladesh is Bengali, which is spoken by more than 99% of the population as their native language.

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**Who acts:** official language · **What happens:** be, speak · **To what, where:** Bengali · **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 (official language), 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:319
# text = The official and predominant language of Bangladesh is Bengali, which is spoken by more than 99% of the population as their native language.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	predominant	predominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	Bengali	Bengali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	17	advmod	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	99	99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the official language of Bangladesh | Bengali |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | Bengali |  |  |  | as corporations's native language | 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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