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title: The script used in Bhutanese literature is in the Bhutanese script (… — Thimphu · tree and pragmatics
description: The script used in Bhutanese literature is in the Bhutanese script (though evolved from Tibetan script) known as jo yig developed in the 16th century. Who acts: script. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thimphu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thimphu, sentence 329

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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 script used in Bhutanese literature is in the Bhutanese script (though evolved from Tibetan script) known as jo yig developed in the 16th century.

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**Who acts:** script · **What happens:** use, be, evolve, know, develop · **To what, where:** script, Bhutanese literature, Bhutanese script, jo yig

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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 (script), 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:329
# text = The script used in Bhutanese literature is in the Bhutanese script (though evolved from Tibetan script) known as jo yig developed in the 16th century.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	script	script	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Bhutanese	bhutanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Bhutanese	bhutanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	script	script	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	evolved	evolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Tibetan	tibetan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	script	script	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
19	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	jo	jo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	yig	yig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	16th	16th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | the script *not said here* |  | Bhutanese literature |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the script |  |  | the Bhutanese script |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **evolve** | participle |  | the Bhutanese script *not said here* |  |  |  | from Tibetan script | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from script=Patient |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as jo yig | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as yig=Attribute |
| 5 | **develop** | participle |  | jo yig *not said here* |  |  | century |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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