Pyongyang, sentence 184
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.
Construction of the complex began after late leader Kim Jong Il described Changjon Street as "pitiful".
Who acts: Construction, late leader · What happens: begin, describe · To what, where: Changjon Street
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 (Construction, late leader), 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 | Construction | Construction | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 complex | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 complex | det |
| 4 | complex | complex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Construction | nmod |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 leader | case |
| 7 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leader | amod |
| 8 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 described | nsubj |
| 9 | Kim | Kim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 leader | appos |
| 10 | Jong | Jong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Kim | flat |
| 11 | Il | Il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Kim | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | parataxis |
| 13 | Changjon | Changjon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Street | compound |
| 14 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 described | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 pitiful | mark |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 pitiful | punct |
| 17 | pitiful | pitiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 described | obl |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 pitiful | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Construction of the complex | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | describe | past | late leader | Changjon Street | pitiful obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent street=Theme |
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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