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title: On previous occasions, the King himself conferred Bura Maaps to outs… — Bhutan · tree and pragmatics
description: On previous occasions, the King himself conferred Bura Maaps to outstanding individuals such as the Director General of Department Hydropower and Power System, Yeshi Wangdi, the Deputy Chairperson of National Council, Dasho Dr. Sonam Kinga, and former National Assembly Speaker, Dasho Ugyen Dorji. Wh
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# Bhutan, sentence 515

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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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On previous occasions, the King himself conferred Bura Maaps to outstanding individuals such as the Director General of Department Hydropower and Power System, Yeshi Wangdi, the Deputy Chairperson of National Council, Dasho Dr. Sonam Kinga, and former National Assembly Speaker, Dasho Ugyen Dorji.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** confer · **To what, where:** Bura, previous occasions

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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 (King), 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:515
# text = On previous occasions, the King himself conferred Bura Maaps to outstanding individuals such as the Director General of Department Hydropower and Power System, Yeshi Wangdi, the Deputy Chairperson of National Council, Dasho Dr. Sonam Kinga, and former National Assembly Speaker, Dasho Ugyen Dorji.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	nmod	_	_
8	conferred	confer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Bura	Bura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Maaps	Maaps	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	outstanding	outstanding	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Director	Director	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Hydropower	Hydropower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Power	Power	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	System	System	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Yeshi	Yeshi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
27	Wangdi	Wangdi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Deputy	deputy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Chairperson	chairperson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	Dasho	Dasho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:desc	_	_
38	Sonam	Sonam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
39	Kinga	Kinga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
43	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Speaker	Speaker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	Dasho	Dasho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	Ugyen	Ugyen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
49	Dorji	Dorji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confer** | past | the King  king | Bura |  | previous occasions |  | to outstanding individuals such the Director General of Department and Power System and Yeshi and Dasho Sonam  Dr.; former Assembly Speaker and Dasho Ugyen *obl* | 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, «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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