Thailand, sentence 15

From Wikipedia, «Thailand», 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.

During the era of Western imperialism, Siam remained the only country in Southeast Asia to avoid colonisation by European powers, although it ceded territory, trade rights, and legal privileges through several unequal treaties.

Who acts: Siam, colonisation · What happens: remain, avoid, cede · To what, where: only country, Southeast Asia, colonisation, territory, several unequal treaties

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Thailand». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Siam, colonisation), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 era	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 era	det
3	era	era	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remained	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 imperialism	case
5	Western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 imperialism	amod
6	imperialism	imperialism	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 era	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 era	punct
8	Siam	Siam	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 remained	nsubj
9	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 country	det
11	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 country	amod
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remained	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 Asia	case
14	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Asia	compound
15	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 remained	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 avoid	mark
17	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 remained	advcl
18	colonisation	colonisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 avoid	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 powers	case
20	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 powers	amod
21	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 avoid	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ceded	punct
23	although	although	SCONJ	_	25 ceded	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ceded	nsubj
25	ceded	cede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 remained	conj
26	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ceded	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rights	punct
28	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rights	compound
29	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 territory	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 privileges	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 privileges	cc
32	legal	legal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 privileges	amod
33	privileges	privilege	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ceded	obl
34	through	through	ADP	_	37 treaties	case
35	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 treaties	amod
36	unequal	unequal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 treaties	amod
37	treaties	treaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ceded	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	Siam	the only country	Southeast Asia	during the era of Western imperialism		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Attribute
2	avoid	to-infinitive	Siam not said here	colonisation			by European powers	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent colonisation=Location
3	cede	past	colonisation	territory and trade rights	several unequal treaties		legal privileges obl	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent territory=Theme

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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Thailand, sentence 15