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title: The people of Laos are categorised by their distribution by elevatio… — Laos · tree and pragmatics
description: The people of Laos are categorised by their distribution by elevation (lowlands, midlands and uplands), as this somewhat correlates with ethnic groupings. Who acts: distribution, somewhat, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Laos» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Laos, sentence 227

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From Wikipedia, [«Laos»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The people of Laos are categorised by their distribution by elevation (lowlands, midlands and uplands), as this somewhat correlates with ethnic groupings.

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**Who acts:** distribution, somewhat, country · **What happens:** categoris, correlate, distribute · **To what, where:** people

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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 (distribution, somewhat, country), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Laos:227
# text = The people of Laos are categorised by their distribution by elevation (lowlands, midlands and uplands), as this somewhat correlates with ethnic groupings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Laos	Laos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	categorised	categoris	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	distribution	distribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	lowlands	lowland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	midlands	midland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	uplands	upland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	somewhat	somewhat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	correlates	correlate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	groupings	grouping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **categoris** | present · passive | country's distribution | the people of Laos |  |  |  | by elevation | tree rules |
| 2 | **correlate** | present | this somewhat |  |  |  |  | with ethnic groupings | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with grouping=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **distribute** |  | country |  |  |  |  |  | nom distribution «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Laos», 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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