North Korea, sentence 341
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.
After four failed attempts, North Korea became the tenth spacefaring nation with the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2 in December 2012, which successfully reached orbit but was believed to be crippled and non-operational.
Who acts: four, North, 3 Unit · What happens: fail, become, reach, believe, be · To what, where: attempts, tenth spacefaring nation, orbit
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 (four, North, 3 Unit), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 failed | mark |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 failed | nsubj |
| 3 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 became | advcl |
| 4 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 failed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 failed | punct |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 became | nsubj |
| 7 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 North | flat |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nation | det |
| 10 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nation | amod |
| 11 | spacefaring | spacefaring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nation | amod |
| 12 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 launch | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 launch | det |
| 15 | launch | launch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nation | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Kwangmyŏngsŏng | case |
| 17 | Kwangmyŏngsŏng | Kwangmyŏngsŏng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 launch | nmod |
| 18 | - | - | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 19 3 | case |
| 19 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Unit | nummod |
| 20 | Unit | unit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 launch | nmod |
| 21 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Unit | flat |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 December | case |
| 23 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Unit | nmod |
| 24 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 December | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 reached | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 reached | nsubj |
| 27 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 28 reached | advmod |
| 28 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Unit | parataxis |
| 29 | orbit | orbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reached | obj |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 believed | cc |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 believed | aux:pass |
| 32 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 reached | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 crippled | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 crippled | cop |
| 35 | crippled | crippled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 believed | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 non-operational | cc |
| 37 | non-operational | non-operational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 crippled | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | four | attempts | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | become | past | North | the tenth spacefaring nation with the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng 3 Unit in December 2012 | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | 3 Unit in December 2012 | orbit | successfully property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent orbit=Theme | |||
| 4 | believe | past · passive | 3 Unit in December 2012 not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | 3 Unit in December 2012 not said here | crippled property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | 3 Unit in December 2012 not said here | tree rules |
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, «North Korea», 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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