---
title: A British observer described an 1876 Siamese military campaign in La… — Laos · tree and pragmatics
description: A British observer described an 1876 Siamese military campaign in Laos as "transformed into slave-hunting raids on a large scale". Who acts: British observer. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Laos» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Laos/62/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Laos](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Laos/) / 62

# Laos, sentence 62

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A British observer described an 1876 Siamese military campaign in Laos as "transformed into slave-hunting raids on a large scale".

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** British observer · **What happens:** describe, transform · **To what, where:** 1876 Siamese military campaign, Laos, hunting raids

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (British observer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:62
# text = A British observer described an 1876 Siamese military campaign in Laos as "transformed into slave-hunting raids on a large scale".
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	observer	observer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	1876	1876	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
7	Siamese	siamese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Laos	Laos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	raids	raid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | past | a British observer | a 1876 Siamese military campaign |  | Laos |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent campaign=Theme |
| 2 | **transform** *in a quote* | participle |  | a 1876 Siamese military campaign *not said here* |  |  |  | into hunting raids *result*; on a large scale | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into raid=Result |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Laos/61/)
- next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Laos/63/)
- ↑ back to [Laos](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Laos/)