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title: Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit count four towns of the lower pla… — Thailand · tree and pragmatics
description: Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit count four towns of the lower plain that had each sent missions to China in its own name before the union, adding Ayodhya itself and Phetchaburi to those two. Who acts: Chris, lower plain, Plain. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thailand» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Thailand, sentence 176

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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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Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit count four towns of the lower plain that had each sent missions to China in its own name before the union, adding Ayodhya itself and Phetchaburi to those two.

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**Who acts:** Chris, lower plain, Plain · **What happens:** count, have, send, add, name · **To what, where:** four towns, sent missions, own name, Ayodhya

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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 (Chris, lower plain, Plain), 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:176
# text = Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit count four towns of the lower plain that had each sent missions to China in its own name before the union, adding Ayodhya itself and Phetchaburi to those two.
1	Chris	Chris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Baker	Baker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Pasuk	Pasuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	Phongpaichit	Phongpaichit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	missions	mission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
29	Ayodhya	Ayodhya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	29	nmod:unmarked	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Phetchaburi	Phetchaburi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | Chris and Pasuk | four towns of the lower plain |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | the lower plain | each sent missions |  | Plain's own name | before the union | to China | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mission=Patient |
| 3 | **send** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | Chris and Pasuk *not said here* | Ayodhya  union and Phetchaburi |  |  |  | to that two | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ayodhya=Patient to two=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **name** |  | Plain |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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