Pyongyang, sentence 23
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After Kim Il Sung's death in 1994, some members of Kim Jong Il's faction proposed changing the name of Pyongyang to "Kim Il Sung City", but others suggested that North Korea should begin calling Seoul "Kim Il Sung City" instead and grant Pyongyang the moniker "Kim Jong Il City".
Who acts: members, others, North, Kim Il · What happens: propose, change, suggest, begin, call, grant · To what, where: name, Il Sung City, Pyongyang · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (members, others, North, Kim Il), 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 | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 2 | Kim | Kim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Il | compound |
| 3 | Il | Il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 death | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Il | flat |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Il | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 proposed | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1994 | case |
| 8 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 death | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 death | punct |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 members | det |
| 11 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 proposed | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 faction | case |
| 13 | Kim | Kim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Jong | compound |
| 14 | Jong | Jong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Il | compound |
| 15 | Il | Il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 faction | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Il | case |
| 17 | faction | faction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 members | nmod |
| 18 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 proposed | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changing | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Pyongyang | case |
| 23 | Pyongyang | Pyongyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 name | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 City | mark |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 City | punct |
| 26 | Kim | Kim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Il | compound |
| 27 | Il | Il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 City | compound |
| 28 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 City | compound |
| 29 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 changing | obj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 City | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 suggested | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 suggested | cc |
| 33 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 suggested | nsubj |
| 34 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 proposed | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 begin | mark |
| 36 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 begin | nsubj |
| 37 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 North | flat |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 begin | aux |
| 39 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 suggested | ccomp |
| 40 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 begin | xcomp |
| 41 | Seoul | Seoul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 City | nsubj |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 City | punct |
| 43 | Kim | Kim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Il | compound |
| 44 | Il | Il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 City | compound |
| 45 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 City | compound |
| 46 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 calling | obj |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 City | punct |
| 48 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 50 grant | advmod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 grant | cc |
| 50 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 calling | advcl |
| 51 | Pyongyang | Pyongyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 grant | obj |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 moniker | det |
| 53 | moniker | moniker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 Pyongyang | appos |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 Kim | punct |
| 55 | Kim | Kim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 City | compound |
| 56 | Jong | Jong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 Kim | flat |
| 57 | Il | Il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 City | compound |
| 58 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 moniker | appos |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 58 City | punct |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past | some members of Jong Il's faction | after Kim Il's death in 1994 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | change | gerund | some members of Jong Il's faction not said here | the name of Pyongyang | Il Sung City obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | suggest speech: suggest | past | others | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | begin | should | North | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | call | gerund | North not said here | Il Sung City Seoul | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent city=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | grant | infinitive | North not said here | Pyongyang | instead property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent pyongyang=Theme | |||
| 7 | die | Kim Il | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | name | Pyongyang | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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