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title: Picture House, the first permanent cinema in Dhaka, began its operat… — Bangladesh · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture House, the first permanent cinema in Dhaka, began its operation during the year between 1913 and 1914. Who acts: you, cinema. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangladesh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangladesh, sentence 507

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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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Picture House, the first permanent cinema in Dhaka, began its operation during the year between 1913 and 1914.

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**Who acts:** you, cinema · **What happens:** picture, begin, operate · **To what, where:** House, operation

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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 (you, cinema), 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:507
# text = Picture House, the first permanent cinema in Dhaka, began its operation during the year between 1913 and 1914.
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	House	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
6	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cinema	cinema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Dhaka	Dhaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	during	during	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1913	1913	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	1914	1914	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | House and the first permanent cinema in Dhaka |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past |  | cinema's operation |  |  | year | between 1913 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality |
| 3 | **operate** |  | cinema |  |  |  |  |  | nom operation «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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