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title: In 1707 it split into three kingdoms: Luang Prabang, Vientiane, and… — Laos · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1707 it split into three kingdoms: Luang Prabang, Vientiane, and Champasak. Who acts: kingdom. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Laos» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Laos, sentence 7

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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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In 1707 it split into three kingdoms: Luang Prabang, Vientiane, and Champasak.

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**Who acts:** kingdom · **What happens:** split · **To what, where:** 1707

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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 (kingdom), 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:7
# text = In 1707 it split into three kingdoms: Luang Prabang, Vientiane, and Champasak.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1707	1707	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Luang	Luang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Prabang	Prabang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Vientiane	Vientiane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Champasak	Champasak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | past | kingdom |  |  | 1707 |  | into three kingdoms  Luang Prabang and Vientiane and Champasak *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into kingdom=Result |

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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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