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title: The culmination of the war established Bangladesh as a sovereign nat… — Bangladesh · tree and pragmatics
description: The culmination of the war established Bangladesh as a sovereign nation following Pakistani surrender on 16 December 1971. Who acts: culmination. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bangladesh» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bangladesh, sentence 85

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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 culmination of the war established Bangladesh as a sovereign nation following Pakistani surrender on 16 December 1971.

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**Who acts:** culmination · **What happens:** establish, follow · **To what, where:** Bangladesh, 16

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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 (culmination), 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:85
# text = The culmination of the war established Bangladesh as a sovereign nation following Pakistani surrender on 16 December 1971.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	culmination	culmination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	case	_	_
13	Pakistani	Pakistani	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
17	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	1971	1971	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past | the culmination of the war | Bangladesh |  | 16  December  1971 |  | as a sovereign nation follow Pakistani surrender | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bangladesh=Theme on 16=Source |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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