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title: This period is described as being "the colonial-era part of Dhaka, d… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
description: This period is described as being "the colonial-era part of Dhaka, developed by the British during the early 20th century. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dhaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dhaka, sentence 153

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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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This period is described as being "the colonial-era part of Dhaka, developed by the British during the early 20th century.

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**What happens:** describe, be, develop · **To what, where:** period, era part

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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: 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:153
# text = This period is described as being "the colonial-era part of Dhaka, developed by the British during the early 20th century.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Dhaka	Dhaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
20	during	during	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive |  | this period |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as era part; of Dhaka | tree rules |
| 3 | **develop** *in a quote* | participle |  | era part *not said here* |  |  | century | by the British | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by british=Location |

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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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