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title: It started with three faculties and 12 departments, covering the sub… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
description: It started with three faculties and 12 departments, covering the subjects of Sanskrit, Bengali, English, liberal arts, history, Arabic, Islamic Studies, Persian, Urdu, philosophy, economics, politics, physics, chemistry, mathematics, and law. Who acts: faculty. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dhaka» with
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# Dhaka, sentence 190

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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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It started with three faculties and 12 departments, covering the subjects of Sanskrit, Bengali, English, liberal arts, history, Arabic, Islamic Studies, Persian, Urdu, philosophy, economics, politics, physics, chemistry, mathematics, and law.

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**Who acts:** faculty · **What happens:** start, cover · **To what, where:** law, subjects

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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 (faculty), 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:190
# text = It started with three faculties and 12 departments, covering the subjects of Sanskrit, Bengali, English, liberal arts, history, Arabic, Islamic Studies, Persian, Urdu, philosophy, economics, politics, physics, chemistry, mathematics, and law.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	faculties	faculty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	departments	department	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Sanskrit	Sanskrit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Bengali	Bengali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	liberal	liberal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Studies	Study	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	_	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Urdu	Urdu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	economics	economics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	physics	physic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	chemistry	chemistry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	mathematics	mathematics	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | faculty | law |  |  |  | with three faculties and 12 departments | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with faculty=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **cover** | gerund | faculty *not said here* | the subjects of Sanskrit and Bengali and English and liberal arts and history and Arabic and Islamic Studies and Persian and Urdu and philosophy and economics and politics and physics and chemistry and mathematics |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |

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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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