Seoul, sentence 246
From Wikipedia, «Seoul», 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.
Urban and civil planning was a key concept when Seoul was first designed to serve as a capital in the late 14th century.
Who acts: Urban planning · What happens: be, design, serve · To what, where: key concept, Seoul
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Seoul». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Urban planning), 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 | Urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 planning | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 civil | cc |
| 3 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Urban | conj |
| 4 | planning | planning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 concept | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 concept | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 concept | det |
| 7 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 concept | amod |
| 8 | concept | concept | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 designed | advmod |
| 10 | Seoul | Seoul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 designed | aux:pass |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 designed | advmod |
| 13 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 concept | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 serve | mark |
| 15 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 designed | advcl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 capital | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 capital | det |
| 18 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 serve | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 century | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 century | det |
| 21 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 century | amod |
| 22 | 14th | 14th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 23 century | amod |
| 23 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 serve | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 concept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Urban planning | a key concept | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | design | past · passive | Seoul | first property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | serve | to-infinitive | century | as a capital | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as capital=Attribute |
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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