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title: In 1299 it refused Xiān's request for a white horse and horse trappi… — Thailand · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1299 it refused Xiān's request for a white horse and horse trappings, sending only the gold-threaded robe granted to the king's father. Who acts: diplomacy, Xiān. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thailand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thailand, sentence 161

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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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In 1299 it refused Xiān's request for a white horse and horse trappings, sending only the gold-threaded robe granted to the king's father.

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**Who acts:** diplomacy, Xiān · **What happens:** refuse, send, thread, grant, request · **To what, where:** request, 1299, threaded robe, father

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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 (diplomacy, Xiān), 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:161
# text = In 1299 it refused Xiān's request for a white horse and horse trappings, sending only the gold-threaded robe granted to the king's father.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1299	1299	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	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Xiān	Xiān	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	trappings	trapping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	threaded	thread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
23	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | diplomacy | Xiān's request |  | 1299 |  | for a white horse and horse trappings | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | gerund | diplomacy *not said here* | the threaded robe |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme |
| 3 | **thread** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | gold *compound* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **grant** | participle |  | the threaded robe *not said here* | the king's father |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to father=Goal |
| 5 | **request** |  | Xiān |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication 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, «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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