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title: Before the opening of the Dhaka Metro Rail, Dhaka was the biggest ci… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
description: Before the opening of the Dhaka Metro Rail, Dhaka was the biggest city in the world without a mass rapid transit system. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dhaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dhaka, sentence 485

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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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Before the opening of the Dhaka Metro Rail, Dhaka was the biggest city in the world without a mass rapid transit system.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** biggest city, world

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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: 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:485
# text = Before the opening of the Dhaka Metro Rail, Dhaka was the biggest city in the world without a mass rapid transit system.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Dhaka	Dhaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Metro	Metro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rail	Rail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Dhaka	Dhaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	transit	transit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the biggest city |  | the world | before the opening of the Dhaka Metro Rail and Dhaka | a mass rapid transit system *advcl* | tree rules |

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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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