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title: As a result, the rivers in Dhaka have severe pathogen pollution, as… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
description: As a result, the rivers in Dhaka have severe pathogen pollution, as indicated by the fecal coliform count that is several hundred times higher than the recommended national and international standards of less than 200 cfu per litre for bathing and swimming. Who acts: rivers, that. A sentence of Wiki
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# Dhaka, sentence 309

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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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As a result, the rivers in Dhaka have severe pathogen pollution, as indicated by the fecal coliform count that is several hundred times higher than the recommended national and international standards of less than 200 cfu per litre for bathing and swimming.

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**Who acts:** rivers, that · **What happens:** have, indicate, be, recommend · **To what, where:** severe pathogen pollution

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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 (rivers, that), 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:309
# text = As a result, the rivers in Dhaka have severe pathogen pollution, as indicated by the fecal coliform count that is several hundred times higher than the recommended national and international standards of less than 200 cfu per litre for bathing and swimming.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Dhaka	Dhaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	pathogen	pathogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	pollution	pollution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	indicated	indicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	fecal	fecal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	coliform	coliform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	parataxis	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
29	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
30	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	37	advmod	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	cfu	cfu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
39	per	per	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	litre	litre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	bathing	bathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the rivers in Dhaka | severe pathogen pollution |  |  |  | as a result | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollution=Patient |
| 2 | **indicate** | participle | the rivers in Dhaka *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the fecal coliform count | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  | time | than the recommended national standards of 200 cfu per litre for bathing and swimming; high *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **recommend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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