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title: In 1354, when Fa Ngum founded the kingdom of Lan Xang, Vientiane bec… — Vientiane · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1354, when Fa Ngum founded the kingdom of Lan Xang, Vientiane became an administrative city. Who acts: Fa, Vientiane. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vientiane» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vientiane, sentence 26

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From Wikipedia, [«Vientiane»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vientiane), 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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In 1354, when Fa Ngum founded the kingdom of Lan Xang, Vientiane became an administrative city.

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**Who acts:** Fa, Vientiane · **What happens:** found, become · **To what, where:** kingdom, 1354, administrative city

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vientiane». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fa, Vientiane), 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:Vientiane:26
# text = In 1354, when Fa Ngum founded the kingdom of Lan Xang, Vientiane became an administrative city.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1354	1354	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	Fa	Fa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Ngum	Ngum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lan	Lan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Xang	Xang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Vientiane	Vientiane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past | Fa | the kingdom of Lan |  | 1354 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past | Vientiane | a administrative city |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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, «Vientiane», 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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