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title: The Lateral Road is Bhutan's primary east–west corridor, connecting… — Bhutan · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lateral Road is Bhutan's primary east–west corridor, connecting the towns of Phuentsholing in the southwest to Trashigang in the east. Who acts: Lateral Road, primary west corridor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bhutan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bhutan, sentence 407

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From Wikipedia, [«Bhutan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan), 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 Lateral Road is Bhutan's primary east–west corridor, connecting the towns of Phuentsholing in the southwest to Trashigang in the east.

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**Who acts:** Lateral Road, primary west corridor · **What happens:** be, connect · **To what, where:** primary west corridor, towns, southwest

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bhutan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lateral Road, primary west corridor), 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:Bhutan:407
# text = The Lateral Road is Bhutan's primary east–west corridor, connecting the towns of Phuentsholing in the southwest to Trashigang in the east.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Lateral	Lateral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
5	Bhutan	Bhutan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	corridor	corridor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Phuentsholing	Phuentsholing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Trashigang	Trashigang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 Lateral Road | Bhutan's primary west corridor |  |  |  | Bhutan *nmod:poss*; east *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | gerund | Bhutan's primary west corridor *not said here* | the towns of Phuentsholing |  | the southwest to Trashigang |  | in the east | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient |

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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, «Bhutan», 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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