Pyongyang, sentence 16
From Wikipedia, «Pyongyang», 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.
It is the McCune–Reischauer romanisation of the Korean term '평양', which translates to 'flat land', reflecting the smooth terrain of the city.
Who acts: name, Reischauer romanisation · What happens: be, translate, reflect · To what, where: Reischauer romanisation, smooth terrain
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pyongyang». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Reischauer romanisation), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 romanisation | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 romanisation | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 McCune | det |
| 4 | McCune | McCune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 romanisation | nsubj |
| 5 | – | – | PUNCT | _ | 7 romanisation | punct |
| 6 | Reischauer | Reischauer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 romanisation | compound |
| 7 | romanisation | romanisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 term | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 term | det |
| 10 | Korean | korean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 term | amod |
| 11 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 romanisation | nmod |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 평양 | punct |
| 13 | 평양 | 평양 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 term | appos |
| 14 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 13 평양 | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 translates | nsubj |
| 16 | translates | translate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 romanisation | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 land | punct |
| 19 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 land | amod |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 translates | obl |
| 21 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 20 land | punct |
| 22 | reflecting | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 translates | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 terrain | det |
| 24 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 terrain | amod |
| 25 | terrain | terrain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reflecting | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 city | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 city | det |
| 28 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 terrain | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 romanisation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | name | Reischauer romanisation | of the Korean term; the McCune nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | translate | present | Reischauer romanisation | to flat land | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reflect | gerund | Reischauer romanisation not said here | the smooth terrain of the city | 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.
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