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title: Rangoon became the capital of British Burma and an important port be… — Myanmar · tree and pragmatics
description: Rangoon became the capital of British Burma and an important port between Calcutta and Singapore. Who acts: Rangoon. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Myanmar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Myanmar, sentence 117

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From Wikipedia, [«Myanmar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar), 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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Rangoon became the capital of British Burma and an important port between Calcutta and Singapore.

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**Who acts:** Rangoon · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** capital

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Myanmar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rangoon), 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:Myanmar:117
# text = Rangoon became the capital of British Burma and an important port between Calcutta and Singapore.
1	Rangoon	rangoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Burma	Burma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Calcutta	Calcutta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Rangoon | the capital of British Burma and a important port between Calcutta and Singapore |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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, «Myanmar», 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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