Seoul, sentence 32
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.
On 18 January 2005, the Seoul Metropolitan Government changed Seoul's official Chinese name from the historic *Hànchéng *to *Shǒu'ěr *(').
Who acts: Metropolitan Government, Seoul · What happens: change, name · To what, where: official Chinese name, 18
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 (Metropolitan Government, Seoul), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 18 | case |
| 2 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 changed | obl |
| 3 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 18 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2005 | 2005 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 18 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 18 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Government | det |
| 7 | Seoul | Seoul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Metropolitan | compound |
| 8 | Metropolitan | Metropolitan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Government | compound |
| 9 | Government | Government | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Seoul | Seoul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Seoul | case |
| 13 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 name | amod |
| 14 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 name | amod |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Hànchéng | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Hànchéng | det |
| 18 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Hànchéng | amod |
| 19 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 18 historic | punct |
| 20 | Hànchéng | Hànchéng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obl |
| 21 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 27 ' | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Shǒu'ěr | case |
| 23 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | Shǒu'ěr | Shǒu'ěr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ' | obl |
| 25 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 24 Shǒu'ěr | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 ' | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hànchéng | punct |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hànchéng | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | the Metropolitan Government | Seoul's official Chinese name | 18 January 2005 | from the historic Hànchéng | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent name=Patient from hànchéng=Initial_State | ||
| 2 | name | Seoul | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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