Pyongyang, sentence 51
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.
During the Japanese colonial rule, Japan tried to develop the city as an industrial center, but faced the March First Movement in 1919 and severe anti-Japanese socialist movements in 1920s due to economic exploitation.
Who acts: Japan · What happens: try, develop, face · To what, where: city, March First Movement
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 (Japan), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 5 rule | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rule | det |
| 3 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rule | amod |
| 4 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rule | amod |
| 5 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rule | punct |
| 7 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 develop | mark |
| 10 | develop | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 develop | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 center | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 center | det |
| 15 | industrial | industrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 center | amod |
| 16 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 develop | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 faced | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 faced | cc |
| 19 | faced | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tried | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Movement | det |
| 21 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Movement | compound |
| 22 | First | First | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 Movement | amod |
| 23 | Movement | Movement | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 faced | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 1919 | case |
| 25 | 1919 | 1919 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 faced | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 movements | cc |
| 27 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 movements | amod |
| 28 | anti-Japanese | anti-japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 movements | amod |
| 29 | socialist | socialist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 movements | compound |
| 30 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 faced | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 1920s | case |
| 32 | 1920s | 1920s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 30 movements | nmod |
| 33 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 36 exploitation | case |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 due | fixed |
| 35 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 exploitation | amod |
| 36 | exploitation | exploitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 movements | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Japan | during the Japanese colonial rule | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | develop not said to happen | to-infinitive | Japan not said here | the city | as a industrial center | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Product | |||
| 3 | face | past | Japan not said here | the March First Movement | in 1919; severe anti-Japanese socialist movements in 1920s due economic exploitation conj | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent movement=Destination in 1919=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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