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title: Bengal accounted for 40% of Dutch imports from Asia, with many produ… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
description: Bengal accounted for 40% of Dutch imports from Asia, with many products being sold to Dutch ships in Bengali harbours and then transported to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies. Who acts: Bengal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dhaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dhaka, sentence 70

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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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Bengal accounted for 40% of Dutch imports from Asia, with many products being sold to Dutch ships in Bengali harbours and then transported to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies.

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**Who acts:** Bengal · **What happens:** account, sell, transport · **To what, where:** Asia, many products, Dutch ships, Bengali harbours, Batavia, Dutch East Indies

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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 (Bengal), 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:70
# text = Bengal accounted for 40% of Dutch imports from Asia, with many products being sold to Dutch ships in Bengali harbours and then transported to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies.
1	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	accounted	account	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	imports	import	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Bengali	Bengali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	harbours	harbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	transported	transport	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Batavia	Batavia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Indies	indy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **account** | past | Bengal |  |  | Asia |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** | gerund · passive |  | many products | Dutch ships | Bengali harbours |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to ship=Recipient |
| 3 | **transport** | past |  |  | Batavia | the Dutch East Indies | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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