Seoul, sentence 91
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.
Seoul's status as a municipal corporation mirrored the independent cities in the United States that do not belong to any county, and Seoul was established as an independent administrative unit, separate from the existing provinces.
Who acts: status, independent cities · What happens: mirror, not belong, establish, separate, exist · To what, where: independent cities, United States, 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 (status, independent cities), 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 | Seoul | Seoul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 status | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Seoul | case |
| 3 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mirrored | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 corporation | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 corporation | det |
| 6 | municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 corporation | amod |
| 7 | corporation | corporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 status | nmod |
| 8 | mirrored | mirror | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cities | det |
| 10 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cities | amod |
| 11 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mirrored | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 States | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 States | det |
| 14 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 States | amod |
| 15 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 cities | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 belong | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 belong | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 belong | advmod |
| 19 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cities | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 county | case |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 county | det |
| 22 | county | county | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 belong | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 established | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 established | cc |
| 25 | Seoul | Seoul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 established | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 established | aux:pass |
| 27 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mirrored | parataxis |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 unit | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 unit | det |
| 30 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 unit | amod |
| 31 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 unit | amod |
| 32 | unit | unit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 established | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 separate | punct |
| 34 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 established | conj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 provinces | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 provinces | det |
| 37 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 provinces | amod |
| 38 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 separate | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mirrored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mirror | past | Seoul's status as a municipal corporation | the independent cities | the United States | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not belong | present · do-support | the independent cities | to any county | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | establish | past · passive | Seoul | as a independent administrative unit | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | separate | infinitive | from the existing provinces | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from province=Co-Patient | |||||
| 5 | exist | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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