--- title: Increasing numbers of migrants from neighbouring Myanmar, Laos, and… — Thailand · tree and pragmatics description: Increasing numbers of migrants from neighbouring Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia, as well as from Nepal and India, have pushed the total number of non-national residents to around 3.5 million as of 2009, up from an estimated 2 million in 2008. 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Increasing numbers of migrants from neighbouring Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia, as well as from Nepal and India, have pushed the total number of non-national residents to around 3.5 million as of 2009, up from an estimated 2 million in 2008. **What happens:** increase, neighbour, push, estimate · **To what, where:** numbers, neighbouring Myanmar, total number, estimated 2 million 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. **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:587 # text = Increasing numbers of migrants from neighbouring Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia, as well as from Nepal and India, have pushed the total number of non-national residents to around 3.5 million as of 2009, up from an estimated 2 million in 2008. 1 Increasing increase VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 2 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 migrants migrant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 neighbouring neighbour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ _ 7 Myanmar Myanmar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Laos Laos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Cambodia Cambodia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 18 cc _ _ 15 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 fixed _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Nepal Nepal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 non-national non-national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 residents resident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 around around ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 3.5 3.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 compound _ _ 33 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 34 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 36 case _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 2009 2009 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 up up ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 estimated estimate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 amod _ _ 42 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 compound _ _ 43 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 2008 2008 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **increase** | gerund | | numbers of migrants | | neighbouring Myanmar and Laos and Cambodia | | from Nepal and India | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient number=Extent from myanmar=Initial\_State | | 2 | **neighbour** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **push** | present · perfect | | the total number of non-national residents | | a estimated 2 million in 2008 | | to 3.5 million; as 2009 | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent number=Theme to million=Destination from million=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **estimate** | participle | | | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 586](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Thailand/586/) - next →: [sentence 588](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Thailand/588/) - ↑ back to [Thailand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Thailand/)