Vientiane, sentence 87
From Wikipedia, «Vientiane», 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 early 2026 the Lao National Assembly approved the first phase of a 562 km standard-gauge railway which will link Vientiane with the Vung Ang deepwater port on Vietnam's coast, providing landlocked Laos direct access to a major port.
Who acts: Lao National Assembly, km gauge railway · What happens: approve, link, provide · To what, where: first phase, early 2026, Vientiane, direct access, landlocked Laos
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vientiane». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lao National Assembly, km gauge railway), 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 | _ | 3 2026 | case |
| 2 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 2026 | amod |
| 3 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 approved | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Assembly | det |
| 5 | Lao | Lao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Assembly | compound |
| 6 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Assembly | amod |
| 7 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 approved | nsubj |
| 8 | approved | approve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 phase | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 phase | amod |
| 11 | phase | phase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 approved | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 railway | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 railway | det |
| 14 | 562 | 562 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 km | nummod |
| 15 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 railway | compound |
| 16 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gauge | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 standard | punct |
| 18 | gauge | gauge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 railway | compound |
| 19 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 phase | nmod |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 link | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 link | aux |
| 22 | link | link | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 railway | acl:relcl |
| 23 | Vientiane | Vientiane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 link | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 port | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 port | det |
| 26 | Vung | Vung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 port | compound |
| 27 | Ang | Ang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Vung | flat |
| 28 | deepwater | deepwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 port | compound |
| 29 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 link | obl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 coast | case |
| 31 | Vietnam | Vietnam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 coast | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 Vietnam | case |
| 33 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 port | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 providing | punct |
| 35 | providing | provide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 link | advcl |
| 36 | landlocked | landlocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Laos | amod |
| 37 | Laos | Lao | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 providing | obj |
| 38 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 access | amod |
| 39 | access | access | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 providing | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 port | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 port | det |
| 42 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 port | amod |
| 43 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 providing | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 approved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approve | past | the Lao National Assembly | the first phase of a km gauge railway | early 2026 | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phase=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | link | future | a km gauge railway | Vientiane | with the Vung deepwater port on Vietnam's coast | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent vientiane=Patient with port=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | provide | gerund | a km gauge railway not said here | direct access | landlocked Laos | to a major port | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition lao=Beneficiary access=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Vientiane», 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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