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title: A rather similar game but played only with the feet is buka ball. — Thailand · tree and pragmatics
description: A rather similar game but played only with the feet is buka ball. Who acts: similar game. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Thailand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Thailand, sentence 728

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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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A rather similar game but played only with the feet is buka ball.

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**Who acts:** similar game · **What happens:** play, be · **To what, where:** feet, buka ball

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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 (similar game), 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:728
# text = A rather similar game but played only with the feet is buka ball.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	buka	buka	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
13	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | a similar game *not said here* | the feet |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a similar game | buka ball |  |  |  |  | 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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