South Korea, sentence 11
From Wikipedia, «South Korea», 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.
The succeeding Korean Empire (1897–1910) sought modernization and reform but was annexed in 1910 into the Empire of Japan.
Who acts: succeeding Korean Empire · What happens: succeed, seek, annex · To what, where: modernization, 1910
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Korea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (succeeding Korean Empire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Empire | det |
| 2 | succeeding | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Empire | amod |
| 3 | Korean | korean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Empire | amod |
| 4 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sought | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 1897 | punct |
| 6 | 1897 | 1897 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Empire | appos |
| 7 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 8 1910 | case |
| 8 | 1910 | 1910 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 1897 | nmod |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 1897 | punct |
| 10 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | modernization | modernization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sought | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reform | cc |
| 13 | reform | reform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 modernization | conj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 annexed | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 annexed | aux:pass |
| 16 | annexed | annex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sought | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1910 | case |
| 18 | 1910 | 1910 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 annexed | obl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 Empire | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Empire | det |
| 21 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 annexed | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Japan | case |
| 23 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Empire | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | gerund | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | seek | past | the succeeding Korean Empire | modernization and reform | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent modernization=Theme | ||||
| 3 | annex | past · passive | the succeeding Korean Empire not said here | 1910 | into the Empire of Japan | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP» |
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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