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title: The new Hindu elites largely controlled the city's economy and sough… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
description: The new Hindu elites largely controlled the city's economy and sought greater influence in the city's governance, beginning from the first municipal election in 1885. Who acts: new Hindu elites. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dhaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dhaka, sentence 200

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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 new Hindu elites largely controlled the city's economy and sought greater influence in the city's governance, beginning from the first municipal election in 1885.

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**Who acts:** new Hindu elites · **What happens:** control, seek, begin · **To what, where:** economy, greater influence, governance, first municipal election

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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 (new Hindu elites), 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:200
# text = The new Hindu elites largely controlled the city's economy and sought greater influence in the city's governance, beginning from the first municipal election in 1885.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	elites	elite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	controlled	control	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
25	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1885	1885	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **control** | past | the new Hindu elites | the city's economy |  |  |  | largely *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent economy=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | past | the new Hindu elites *not said here* | greater influence |  | the city's governance |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent influence=Theme in governance=Location |
| 3 | **begin** | gerund | the new Hindu elites *not said here* |  |  | the first municipal election |  | in 1885 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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