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title: The city was guarded by Mughal artillery like the Bibi Mariam Cannon… — Dhaka · tree and pragmatics
description: The city was guarded by Mughal artillery like the Bibi Mariam Cannon (Lady Mary Cannon). Who acts: Mughal artillery. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dhaka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dhaka, sentence 81

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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 city was guarded by Mughal artillery like the Bibi Mariam Cannon (Lady Mary Cannon).

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**Who acts:** Mughal artillery · **What happens:** guard · **To what, where:** city

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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 (Mughal artillery), 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:81
# text = The city was guarded by Mughal artillery like the Bibi Mariam Cannon (Lady Mary Cannon).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Mughal	mughal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	artillery	artillery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Bibi	Bibi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Mariam	Mariam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Cannon	Cannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Cannon	Cannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | past · passive | Mughal artillery like the Bibi Mariam Cannon and Lady and Mary Cannon | the city |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |

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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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