East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals, sentence 12

Thailand, with its capital Bangkok, is the only country in South-East Asia that was never colonised by a European power: it lay between British lands to the west and French lands to the east and kept its freedom by clever diplomacy (careful talks and deals).

Who acts: Thailand, European power, capital · What happens: be, not colonise, lie, keep · To what, where: only country, South, British lands, freedom

This is a sentence of the lesson «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thailand, European power, capital), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 country	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Bangkok	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 Bangkok	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 capital	nmod:poss
5	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Bangkok	compound
6	Bangkok	Bangkok	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Thailand	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thailand	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 country	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 country	det
10	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 country	amod
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 South	case
13	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 country	nmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Asia	punct
15	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Asia	compound
16	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 country	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 colonised	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 colonised	aux:pass
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 colonised	advmod
20	colonised	colonise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 country	acl:relcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 power	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 power	det
23	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 power	amod
24	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 colonised	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 country	parataxis
28	between	between	ADP	_	30 lands	case
29	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lands	amod
30	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lay	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	36 lands	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 west	det
33	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lands	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 French	cc
35	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 west	conj
36	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lands	nmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 east	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 east	det
39	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lands	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 kept	cc
41	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lay	conj
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 freedom	nmod:poss
43	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 kept	obj
44	by	by	ADP	_	46 diplomacy	case
45	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 diplomacy	amod
46	diplomacy	diplomacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 kept	obl
47	(	(	PUNCT	_	49 talks	punct
48	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 talks	amod
49	talks	talk	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 diplomacy	appos
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 deals	cc
51	deals	deal	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 talks	conj
52	)	)	PUNCT	_	49 talks	punct
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 country	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Thailand	the only country	South	East Asia nmod	tree rules
2	not colonise	past · passive	a European power	the only country			tree rules
3	lie	past	capital		British lands the west to lands to the east		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between land=Location
4	keep	past	capital not said here	capital's freedom		by clever diplomacy	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme by diplomacy=Location

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:geography:011-east-south-and-south-east-asia.lesson:12.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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