North Korea, sentence 252
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.
The U.S. State Department has estimated that North Korea's military spending averaged 23% of its GDP from 2004 to 2014, the highest level in the world.
Who acts: U.S. State Department, military spending, North Korea · What happens: estimate, average, spend · To what, where: highest level, 2004
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 (U.S. State Department, military spending, North Korea), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Department | det |
| 2 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Department | compound |
| 3 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Department | compound |
| 4 | Department | Department | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 estimated | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 estimated | aux |
| 6 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 averaged | mark |
| 8 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Korea | compound |
| 9 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spending | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Korea | case |
| 11 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spending | amod |
| 12 | spending | spending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 averaged | nsubj |
| 13 | averaged | average | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 estimated | advcl |
| 14 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 % | nummod |
| 15 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 13 averaged | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 GDP | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 GDP | nmod:poss |
| 18 | GDP | gdp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 % | nmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 2004 | case |
| 20 | 2004 | 2004 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 averaged | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 2014 | case |
| 22 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 2004 | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 level | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 level | det |
| 25 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 level | amod |
| 26 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 averaged | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 level | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 estimated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | estimate | present · perfect | the U.S. State Department | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | average | past | North Korea's military spending | the highest level in the world | 2004 to 2014 | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Theme | |||
| 3 | spend | North Korea | nom spending «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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