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title: Thimphu was selected to be the capital of Bhutan in 1952 but was not… — Thimphu · tree and pragmatics
description: Thimphu was selected to be the capital of Bhutan in 1952 but was not officially established as capital of Bhutan until 1961. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thimphu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thimphu, sentence 106

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From Wikipedia, [«Thimphu»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimphu), 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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Thimphu was selected to be the capital of Bhutan in 1952 but was not officially established as capital of Bhutan until 1961.

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**What happens:** select, be, not establish · **To what, where:** Thimphu, 1952, capital

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Thimphu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Thimphu:106
# text = Thimphu was selected to be the capital of Bhutan in 1952 but was not officially established as capital of Bhutan until 1961.
1	Thimphu	Thimphu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Bhutan	Bhutan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1952	1952	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Bhutan	Bhutan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	until	until	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | past · passive |  | Thimphu |  | 1952 |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the capital |  |  |  | of Bhutan | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **establish** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | until 1961 | as capital of Bhutan; officially *property* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» |

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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, «Thimphu», 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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