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title: A weekend market is held on the western bank of the Wang Chu. — Thimphu · tree and pragmatics
description: A weekend market is held on the western bank of the Wang Chu. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thimphu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thimphu, sentence 64

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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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A weekend market is held on the western bank of the Wang Chu.

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**What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** weekend market, western bank

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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:64
# text = A weekend market is held on the western bank of the Wang Chu.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Wang	Wang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Chu	Chu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · passive |  | a weekend market |  | the western bank of the Wang Chu |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on bank=Location |

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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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