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title: It was declared as International Mother Language Day by UNESCO in 19… — Bangladesh · tree and pragmatics
description: It was declared as International Mother Language Day by UNESCO in 1999. Who acts: UNESCO. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangladesh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangladesh, sentence 399

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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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It was declared as International Mother Language Day by UNESCO in 1999.

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**Who acts:** UNESCO · **What happens:** declare · **To what, where:** remembrance, 1999

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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 (UNESCO), 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:399
# text = It was declared as International Mother Language Day by UNESCO in 1999.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	International	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Language	Language	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	UNESCO	UNESCO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive | UNESCO | remembrance |  | 1999 | as International Language Day |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as day=Attribute |

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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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