--- title: In early 2026 the Lao National Assembly approved the first phase of… — Vientiane · tree and pragmatics description: In early 2026 the Lao National Assembly approved the first phase of a 562 km standard-gauge railway which will link Vientiane with the Vung Ang deepwater port on Vietnam's coast, providing landlocked Laos direct access to a major port. Who acts: Lao National Assembly, km gauge railway. 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In early 2026 the Lao National Assembly approved the first phase of a 562 km standard-gauge railway which will link Vientiane with the Vung Ang deepwater port on Vietnam's coast, providing landlocked Laos direct access to a major port. **Who acts:** Lao National Assembly, km gauge railway · **What happens:** approve, link, provide · **To what, where:** first phase, early 2026, Vientiane, direct access, landlocked Laos 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 National Assembly, km gauge railway), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:87 # text = In early 2026 the Lao National Assembly approved the first phase of a 562 km standard-gauge railway which will link Vientiane with the Vung Ang deepwater port on Vietnam's coast, providing landlocked Laos direct access to a major port. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 Lao Lao PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 National National ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Assembly Assembly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 approved approve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 phase phase NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 14 562 562 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 16 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 gauge gauge NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 railway railway NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 link link VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 Vientiane Vientiane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 Vung Vung PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 27 Ang Ang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 28 deepwater deepwater NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 port port NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 Vietnam Vietnam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 providing provide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 36 landlocked landlocked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 Laos Lao PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 direct direct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 access access NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 major major ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 port port NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **approve** | past | the Lao National Assembly | the first phase of a km gauge railway | | early 2026 | | | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phase=Beneficiary | | 2 | **link** | future | a km gauge railway | Vientiane | | | | with the Vung deepwater port on Vietnam's coast | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent vientiane=Patient with port=Co-Patient | | 3 | **provide** | gerund | a km gauge railway *not said here* | direct access | landlocked Laos | | | to a major port | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition lao=Beneficiary access=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vientiane/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vientiane/88/) - ↑ back to [Vientiane](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vientiane/)