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title: However, some laws are inspired from Buddhist practices, such as ban… — Thailand · tree and pragmatics
description: However, some laws are inspired from Buddhist practices, such as banning alcohol sales on religious holidays. Who acts: Buddhist practices. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thailand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thailand, sentence 611

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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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However, some laws are inspired from Buddhist practices, such as banning alcohol sales on religious holidays.

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**Who acts:** Buddhist practices · **What happens:** inspire, ban · **To what, where:** laws, alcohol sales, religious holidays

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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 (Buddhist practices), 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:611
# text = However, some laws are inspired from Buddhist practices, such as banning alcohol sales on religious holidays.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	practices	practice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	banning	ban	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
14	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sales	sale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	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 | **inspire** | present · passive | Buddhist practices | some laws |  |  |  | however *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **ban** | gerund | Buddhist practices *not said here* | alcohol sales |  | religious holidays |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sale=Theme |

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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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