--- title: Siam, now Thailand, stayed independent between British and French co… — When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and… · tree and pragmatics description: Siam, now Thailand, stayed independent between British and French colonies through skilled diplomacy, clever talks and deals with both, but gave up some lands to keep the rest. Who acts: Siam. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Siam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson:12 # text = Siam, now Thailand, stayed independent between British and French colonies through skilled diplomacy, clever talks and deals with both, but gave up some lands to keep the rest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Siam Siam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 Thailand Thailand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 independent independent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 between between ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 colonies colony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 13 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 skilled skilled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 diplomacy diplomacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 talks talk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:appos 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 deals deal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | past | Siam | | | skilled diplomacy and clever talks and deals with both | | independent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through diplomacy=Location | | 2 | **give up** | past | Siam *not said here* | some lands | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Source | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Siam *not said here* | the rest | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:history:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When civilizations meet: conquest, col…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/76-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides/11/) - next →: [When civilizations meet: conquest, col…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/76-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/76-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides/)