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title: Similar to colonial boroughs the length and breadth of the Subcontin… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
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# Dhaka, sentence 154

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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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Similar to colonial boroughs the length and breadth of the Subcontinent, this development was typified by stately government buildings, spacious tree-lined avenues, and sturdy white-washed bungalows set amidst always overgrown (the British never did manage to fully tame the landscape) gardens.

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**Who acts:** sturdy washed bungalows · **What happens:** typify, line, wash, set, overgrow, not manage · **To what, where:** development, amidst, British gardens, landscape

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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 (sturdy washed bungalows), 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:154
# text = Similar to colonial boroughs the length and breadth of the Subcontinent, this development was typified by stately government buildings, spacious tree-lined avenues, and sturdy white-washed bungalows set amidst always overgrown (the British never did manage to fully tame the landscape) gardens.
1	Similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	boroughs	borough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Subcontinent	Subcontinent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	typified	typify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	avenues	avenue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	bungalows	bungalow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
35	amidst	amidst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	37	advmod	_	_
37	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
40	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
41	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
42	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	manage	manage	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
45	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	tame	tame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
50	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **typify** | past · passive |  | this development |  |  |  | by government buildings and spacious lined avenues | tree rules |
| 2 | **line** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | tree *compound* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wash** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **set** | present | sturdy washed bungalows | amidst |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient amidst=Result |
| 5 | **overgrow** | participle | sturdy washed bungalows *not said here* | the British gardens |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **manage** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **tame** | to-infinitive |  | the landscape |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent landscape=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, «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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