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title: The 1893 Franco-Siamese crisis erupted, caused by French demands for… — Thailand · tree and pragmatics
description: The 1893 Franco-Siamese crisis erupted, caused by French demands for Laotian territory east of Mekong. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thailand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thailand, sentence 227

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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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The 1893 Franco-Siamese crisis erupted, caused by French demands for Laotian territory east of Mekong.

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**What happens:** erupt, cause · **To what, where:** Franco Siamese crisis

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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: 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:227
# text = The 1893 Franco-Siamese crisis erupted, caused by French demands for Laotian territory east of Mekong.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	1893	1893	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Franco	Franco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Siamese	siamese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	erupted	erupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	demands	demand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Laotian	laotian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Mekong	Mekong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **erupt** | participle |  | the Franco Siamese crisis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | participle |  | the Franco Siamese crisis *not said here* |  |  |  | by French demands; for Laotian territory east of Mekong | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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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