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title: The state-owned Bangladesh Railway provides suburban and national se… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
description: The state-owned Bangladesh Railway provides suburban and national services, with regular express train services connecting Dhaka with other major urban areas, such as Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet and Rangpur. Who acts: owned Bangladesh Railway, regular express train services. A sentence of W
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# Dhaka, sentence 479

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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 state-owned Bangladesh Railway provides suburban and national services, with regular express train services connecting Dhaka with other major urban areas, such as Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet and Rangpur.

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**Who acts:** owned Bangladesh Railway, regular express train services · **What happens:** own, provide, connect · **To what, where:** suburban, Dhaka

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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 (owned Bangladesh Railway, regular express train services), 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:479
# text = The state-owned Bangladesh Railway provides suburban and national services, with regular express train services connecting Dhaka with other major urban areas, such as Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet and Rangpur.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Railway	Railway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	provides	provide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	suburban	suburban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	express	express	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
18	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	Dhaka	Dhaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	Chittagong	Chittagong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Rajshahi	Rajshahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Khulna	Khulna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Sylhet	Sylhet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	Rangpur	Rangpur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | state *compound* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **provide** | present | the owned Bangladesh Railway | suburban and national services |  |  |  | with regular express train services | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent suburban=Recipient with service=Theme |
| 3 | **connect** | gerund | regular express train services *not said here* | Dhaka |  |  |  | with other major urban areas such Chittagong and Rajshahi and Khulna and Sylhet and Rangpur | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent dhaka=Patient with area=Co-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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