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title: Its tribute included elephants, ivory, rhinoceros horn and cloth, bu… — Thailand · tree and pragmatics
description: Its tribute included elephants, ivory, rhinoceros horn and cloth, but the Song court, citing the distance, instructed Chên Li Fu to send no further tribute. Who acts: tribute. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thailand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thailand, sentence 147

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From Wikipedia, [«Thailand»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand), 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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Its tribute included elephants, ivory, rhinoceros horn and cloth, but the Song court, citing the distance, instructed Chên Li Fu to send no further tribute.

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**Who acts:** tribute · **What happens:** include, cite, instruct, send · **To what, where:** distance, Chên Li Fu, further tribute

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Thailand». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tribute), 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:Thailand:147
# text = Its tribute included elephants, ivory, rhinoceros horn and cloth, but the Song court, citing the distance, instructed Chên Li Fu to send no further tribute.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
3	included	include	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	rhinoceros	rhinoceros	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Song	Song	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	citing	cite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
22	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	Chên	Chên	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	Li	Li	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Fu	Fu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
29	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cite** | gerund | shore's tribute and included elephants and ivory and rhinoceros horn and cloth but the Song court *not said here* | the distance |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme |
| 3 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past | shore's tribute and included elephants and ivory and rhinoceros horn and cloth but the Song court | Chên Li Fu |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent fu=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **send** | to-infinitive | shore's tribute and included elephants and ivory and rhinoceros horn and cloth but the Song court *not said here* | no further tribute |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme |

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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, «Thailand», 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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