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title: In 1975, Pathet Lao troops moved towards the city and Americans bega… — Vientiane · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1975, Pathet Lao troops moved towards the city and Americans began evacuating the capital. Who acts: Lao troops, Americans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vientiane» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vientiane, sentence 35

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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 1975, Pathet Lao troops moved towards the city and Americans began evacuating the capital.

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**Who acts:** Lao troops, Americans · **What happens:** move, begin, evacuate · **To what, where:** 1975, capital

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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 (Lao troops, Americans), 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:35
# text = In 1975, Pathet Lao troops moved towards the city and Americans began evacuating the capital.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Pathet	Pathet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Lao	Lao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	nsubj	_	_
7	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	evacuating	evacuate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | Lao troops |  |  | 1975 |  | towards the city | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in 1975=Source towards city=Trajectory |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Americans |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **evacuate** | gerund | Americans *not said here* | the capital |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=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, «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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