North Korea, sentence 87
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 North failed in several assassination attempts on South Korean leaders, such as in 1968, 1974, and the Rangoon bombing in 1983; tunnels were found under the DMZ and tensions flared over the axe murder incident at Panmunjom in 1976.
Who acts: North, tensions · What happens: fail, find, flare · To what, where: Rangoon bombing, several assassination attempts, tunnels, DMZ, murder incident
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 (North, tensions), 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 | 2 North | det |
| 2 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 failed | nsubj |
| 3 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 attempts | case |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 attempts | amod |
| 6 | assassination | assassination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attempts | compound |
| 7 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 failed | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 leaders | case |
| 9 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 leaders | compound |
| 10 | Korean | korean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leaders | amod |
| 11 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 attempts | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 1968 | punct |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 16 1968 | case |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1968 | case |
| 16 | 1968 | 1968 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 leaders | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 1974 | punct |
| 18 | 1974 | 1974 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 1968 | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bombing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bombing | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bombing | det |
| 22 | Rangoon | Rangoon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 bombing | compound |
| 23 | bombing | bombing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 failed | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 1983 | case |
| 25 | 1983 | 1983 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 bombing | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 found | punct |
| 27 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 found | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 found | aux:pass |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 failed | parataxis |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 DMZ | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 DMZ | det |
| 32 | DMZ | DMZ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 found | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 flared | cc |
| 34 | tensions | tension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 flared | nsubj |
| 35 | flared | flare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 found | conj |
| 36 | over | over | ADP | _ | 40 incident | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 incident | det |
| 38 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 murder | compound |
| 39 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 incident | compound |
| 40 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flared | obl |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 Panmunjom | case |
| 42 | Panmunjom | Panmunjom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 incident | nmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 1976 | case |
| 44 | 1976 | 1976 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 flared | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | the North | the Rangoon bombing in 1983 | several assassination attempts on South Korean leaders | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in attempt=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | find | past · passive | tunnels | the DMZ | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | flare | past | tensions | the murder incident at Panmunjom | in 1976 | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over incident=Location |
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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