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title: The British moved to oust the last independent Nawab of Bengal in 17… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
description: The British moved to oust the last independent Nawab of Bengal in 1757, who was allied with the French. Who acts: British. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dhaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dhaka, sentence 103

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From Wikipedia, [«Dhaka»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka), 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 British moved to oust the last independent Nawab of Bengal in 1757, who was allied with the French.

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**Who acts:** British · **What happens:** move, oust, ally · **To what, where:** last independent Nawab, 1757

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dhaka». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British), 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:Dhaka:103
# text = The British moved to oust the last independent Nawab of Bengal in 1757, who was allied with the French.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	British	British	PROPN	NNP	_	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	oust	oust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Nawab	Nawab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1757	1757	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	allied	ally	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | the British |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **oust** | to-infinitive | the British *not said here* | the last independent Nawab of Bengal |  | 1757 |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nawab=Theme |
| 3 | **ally** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with the French; who *nsubj* | 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, «Dhaka», 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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