Laos, sentence 72
From Wikipedia, «Laos», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In 1945, the French drew up a plan to move some of the Vietnamese to the Vientiane Plain, Savannakhet region, and the Bolaven Plateau, which was derailed by the Japanese invasion of Indochina.
Who acts: French, Japanese invasion · What happens: draw up, move, derail, invade · To what, where: plan, 1945, some, Bolaven Plateau, Indochina
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Laos». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (French, Japanese invasion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1945 | case |
| 2 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 drew | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1945 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 French | det |
| 5 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drew | nsubj |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 drew | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 plan | det |
| 9 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 move | mark |
| 11 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 plan | acl |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 move | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Vietnamese | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Vietnamese | det |
| 15 | Vietnamese | Vietnamese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 some | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Plain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Plain | det |
| 18 | Vientiane | Vientiane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Plain | compound |
| 19 | Plain | Plain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 move | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 region | punct |
| 21 | Savannakhet | Savannakhet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 region | compound |
| 22 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Plain | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 derailed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 derailed | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Plateau | det |
| 26 | Bolaven | Bolaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Plateau | compound |
| 27 | Plateau | Plateau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 derailed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 derailed | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 derailed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 derailed | aux:pass |
| 31 | derailed | derail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 drew | conj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 invasion | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 invasion | det |
| 34 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 invasion | amod |
| 35 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 derailed | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Indochina | case |
| 37 | Indochina | Indochina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 invasion | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | past | the French | a plan | 1945 | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plan=Theme in 1945=Destination | |||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | the French not said here | some of the Vietnamese | to the Vientiane Plain result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent some=Theme to plain=Result | |||
| 3 | derail | past · passive | the Japanese invasion of Indochina | the Bolaven Plateau | which nsubj:pass | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | invade | Indochina | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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