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title: During this time the practice of using a Dzong both as a religious c… — Thimphu · tree and pragmatics
description: During this time the practice of using a Dzong both as a religious centre for lamas and administrative centre for civic administration was introduced. Who acts: practice. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thimphu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thimphu, sentence 153

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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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During this time the practice of using a Dzong both as a religious centre for lamas and administrative centre for civic administration was introduced.

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**Who acts:** practice · **What happens:** use, introduce · **To what, where:** Dzong, practice

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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: who acts (practice), 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:153
# text = During this time the practice of using a Dzong both as a religious centre for lamas and administrative centre for civic administration was introduced.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Dzong	Dzong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	both	both	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	lamas	lama	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	civic	civic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund | the practice *not said here* | a Dzong |  |  |  | as a religious centre for lamas and administrative centre for civic administration; both *property* | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent dzong=Duration as centre=Attribute |
| 2 | **introduce** | past · passive |  | the practice |  |  | time |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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, «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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