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title: British colonial rule introduced Western elements of culture to Myan… — Myanmar · tree and pragmatics
description: British colonial rule introduced Western elements of culture to Myanmar. Who acts: British colonial rule. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Myanmar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Myanmar, sentence 545

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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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British colonial rule introduced Western elements of culture to Myanmar.

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**Who acts:** British colonial rule · **What happens:** introduce · **To what, where:** Western elements

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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 (British colonial rule), 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:545
# text = British colonial rule introduced Western elements of culture to Myanmar.
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | past | British colonial rule | Western elements of culture to Myanmar |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent element=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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