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title: Muay Thai is a combat sport that uses stand-up striking along with v… — Thailand · tree and pragmatics
description: Muay Thai is a combat sport that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. Who acts: Muay, combat sport. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thailand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thailand, sentence 717

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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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Muay Thai is a combat sport that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques.

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**Who acts:** Muay, combat sport · **What happens:** be, use, stand up, strike, clinch · **To what, where:** combat sport

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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 (Muay, combat sport), 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:717
# text = Muay Thai is a combat sport that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques.
1	Muay	Muay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Thai	Thai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	along	along	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	clinching	clinch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	techniques	technique	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Muay | a combat sport |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | a combat sport |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stand up** | infinitive | a combat sport *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **strike** | gerund | a combat sport *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with various clinching techniques; along *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with technique=Theme |
| 5 | **clinch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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