Thailand, sentence 726
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.
Takraw is a sport native to Thailand in which the players hit a rattan ball and are only allowed to use their feet, knees, chest, and head to touch the ball.
Who acts: Takraw, players · What happens: be, hit, allow, use, touch · To what, where: sport, rattan ball, feet, ball
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 (Takraw, players), 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 | Takraw | Takraw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sport | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sport | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sport | det |
| 4 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Thailand | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 native | fixed |
| 7 | Thailand | Thailand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sport | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hit | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 players | det |
| 11 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hit | nsubj |
| 12 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sport | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ball | det |
| 14 | rattan | rattan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ball | compound |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 allowed | cc |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 allowed | aux:pass |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 allowed | advmod |
| 19 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hit | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 use | mark |
| 21 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 allowed | xcomp |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 feet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 use | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knees | punct |
| 25 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 feet | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 chest | punct |
| 27 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feet | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 head | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 head | cc |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 touch | mark |
| 32 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hit | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ball | det |
| 34 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 touch | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sport | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Takraw | a sport | native Thailand | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hit | past | the players | a rattan ball | a sport | head obl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ball=Theme in which=Destination | ||
| 3 | allow | present · passive | the players not said here | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | use not said to happen | to-infinitive | the players not said here | players's feet and knees and chest | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | ||||
| 5 | touch | to-infinitive | the players not said here | the ball | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ball=Co-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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