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title: For centuries, the region around Dhaka has been the centre of produc… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
description: For centuries, the region around Dhaka has been the centre of production for fine cotton textiles. Who acts: region. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dhaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dhaka, sentence 521

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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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For centuries, the region around Dhaka has been the centre of production for fine cotton textiles.

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**Who acts:** region · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** centre

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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 (region), 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:521
# text = For centuries, the region around Dhaka has been the centre of production for fine cotton textiles.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dhaka	Dhaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	textiles	textile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | the region around Dhaka | the centre |  |  | century | of production; for fine cotton textiles | 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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