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title: It was set up by the Government of Bhutan with the sole objective of… — Thimphu · tree and pragmatics
description: It was set up by the Government of Bhutan with the sole objective of preserving the rich culture and tradition of Bhutan and training students in all traditional art forms. Who acts: Government, sole objective. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thimphu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thimphu, sentence 390

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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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It was set up by the Government of Bhutan with the sole objective of preserving the rich culture and tradition of Bhutan and training students in all traditional art forms.

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**Who acts:** Government, sole objective · **What happens:** set up, preserve, form · **To what, where:** education, rich culture, traditional art

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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 (Government, sole objective), 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:390
# text = It was set up by the Government of Bhutan with the sole objective of preserving the rich culture and tradition of Bhutan and training students in all traditional art forms.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Bhutan	Bhutan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	objective	objective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	preserving	preserve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Bhutan	Bhutan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
28	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
30	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 Government of Bhutan | education |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient subject=Result |
| 2 | **preserve** | gerund | the sole objective *not said here* | the rich culture and tradition of Bhutan and training students |  | all traditional art |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent culture=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **form** | present | the sole objective |  |  |  |  |  | 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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