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title: In 1945, the French drew up a plan to move some of the Vietnamese to… — Laos · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1945, the French drew up a plan to move some of the Vietnamese to the Vientiane Plain, Savannakhet region, and the Bolaven Plateau, which was derailed by the Japanese invasion of Indochina. Who acts: French, Japanese invasion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Laos» with its dependency tree and pragmati
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# Laos, sentence 72

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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 1945, the French drew up a plan to move some of the Vietnamese to the Vientiane Plain, Savannakhet region, and the Bolaven Plateau, which was derailed by the Japanese invasion of Indochina.

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**Who acts:** French, Japanese invasion · **What happens:** draw up, move, derail, invade · **To what, where:** plan, 1945, some, Bolaven Plateau, Indochina

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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 (French, Japanese invasion), 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:72
# text = In 1945, the French drew up a plan to move some of the Vietnamese to the Vientiane Plain, Savannakhet region, and the Bolaven Plateau, which was derailed by the Japanese invasion of Indochina.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Vientiane	Vientiane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Plain	Plain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Savannakhet	Savannakhet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Bolaven	Bolaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Plateau	Plateau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	derailed	derail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Indochina	Indochina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw up** | past | the French | a plan |  | 1945 |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plan=Theme in 1945=Destination |
| 2 | **move** | to-infinitive | the French *not said here* | some of the Vietnamese |  |  |  | to the Vientiane Plain *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent some=Theme to plain=Result |
| 3 | **derail** | past · passive | the Japanese invasion of Indochina | the Bolaven Plateau |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **invade** |  |  | Indochina |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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