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description: Siam adapted to international relations during the imperialist era and joined World War I on the side of the Allies, a political decision aimed at revising the effects of unequal treaties and enhancing Siam's international status. Who acts: Siam, I. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thailand» with its depe
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# Thailand, sentence 17

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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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Siam adapted to international relations during the imperialist era and joined World War I on the side of the Allies, a political decision aimed at revising the effects of unequal treaties and enhancing Siam's international status.

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**Who acts:** Siam, I · **What happens:** adapt, join, aim, revise, enhance, effect · **To what, where:** international relations, World War, side, political decision, effects, international status

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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 (Siam, I), 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:17
# text = Siam adapted to international relations during the imperialist era and joined World War I on the side of the Allies, a political decision aimed at revising the effects of unequal treaties and enhancing Siam's international status.
1	Siam	Siam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	during	during	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	imperialist	imperialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Allies	Ally	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	revising	revise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	unequal	unequal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	treaties	treaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	enhancing	enhance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
35	Siam	Siam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adapt** | past | Siam |  |  |  | during the imperialist era | to international relations *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent to relation=Goal |
| 2 | **join** | past | I | World War |  | the side of the Allies |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient |
| 3 | **aim** | participle |  | a political decision *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **revise** | gerund |  | the effects of unequal treaties |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |
| 5 | **enhance** | gerund |  | Siam's international status |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent status=Patient |
| 6 | **effect** |  |  | unequal treaties |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon 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, «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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