North Korea, sentence 106
From Wikipedia, «North Korea», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Throughout 2017, following Donald Trump's ascension to the US presidency, relations between the United States and North Korea worsened, and there was a period of heightened tension between the two countries.
Who acts: relations, period · What happens: follow, worsen, be, heighten
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «North Korea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relations, period), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 2 2017 | case |
| 2 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 worsened | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2017 | punct |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 ascension | case |
| 5 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ascension | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Trump | Trump | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Donald | flat |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Donald | case |
| 8 | ascension | ascension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 worsened | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 presidency | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 presidency | det |
| 11 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 presidency | compound |
| 12 | presidency | presidency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ascension | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 relations | punct |
| 14 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 worsened | nsubj |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 States | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 States | det |
| 17 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 States | amod |
| 18 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 relations | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Korea | cc |
| 20 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Korea | compound |
| 21 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 States | conj |
| 22 | worsened | worsen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 was | cc |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 worsened | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 period | det |
| 28 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 tension | case |
| 30 | heightened | heighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 tension | amod |
| 31 | tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 period | nmod |
| 32 | between | between | ADP | _ | 35 countries | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 countries | det |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 countries | nummod |
| 35 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 tension | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 worsened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | worsen | past | relations between the United States and North Korea | throughout 2017 | follow Donald's ascension to the US presidency | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | be | past | a period of heightened tension between the two countries | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | heighten | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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