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title: The Institute of Traditional Medicine was set up in 1979 with assist… — Thimphu · tree and pragmatics
description: The Institute of Traditional Medicine was set up in 1979 with assistance from World Health Organization (WHO) to develop and popularise Bhutanese herbal medicine, which has been used by the rural people in Bhutan for many centuries. Who acts: rural people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thimphu» with it
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# Thimphu, sentence 315

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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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The Institute of Traditional Medicine was set up in 1979 with assistance from World Health Organization (WHO) to develop and popularise Bhutanese herbal medicine, which has been used by the rural people in Bhutan for many centuries.

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**Who acts:** rural people · **What happens:** set up, develop, popularise, use · **To what, where:** Institute, 1979, Bhutanese herbal medicine

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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 (rural people), 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:315
# text = The Institute of Traditional Medicine was set up in 1979 with assistance from World Health Organization (WHO) to develop and popularise Bhutanese herbal medicine, which has been used by the rural people in Bhutan for many centuries.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Traditional	Traditional	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1979	1979	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Health	Health	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Organization	Organization	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	develop	develop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	popularise	popularise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	Bhutanese	bhutanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	herbal	herbal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Bhutan	Bhutan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | past · passive |  | the Institute of Traditional Medicine |  | 1979 |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1979=Destination |
| 2 | **develop** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with assistance; from World Health Organization; WHO *nsubj* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from organization=Patient |
| 3 | **popularise** | present |  | Bhutanese herbal medicine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | present · perfect · passive | the rural people in Bhutan | Bhutanese herbal medicine |  |  | century |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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