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title: DEVCO, a subsidiary of the Occtavian Steel Company, began widescale… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
description: DEVCO, a subsidiary of the Occtavian Steel Company, began widescale power distribution in 1930. Who acts: DEVCO. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dhaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dhaka, sentence 192

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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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DEVCO, a subsidiary of the Occtavian Steel Company, began widescale power distribution in 1930.

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**Who acts:** DEVCO · **What happens:** begin · **To what, where:** widescale power distribution, 1930

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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 (DEVCO), 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:192
# text = DEVCO, a subsidiary of the Occtavian Steel Company, began widescale power distribution in 1930.
1	DEVCO	DEVCO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	subsidiary	subsidiary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Occtavian	Occtavian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Steel	Steel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	widescale	widescale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	distribution	distribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1930	1930	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | DEVCO | widescale power distribution |  | 1930 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distribution=Eventuality |

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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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