South Korea, sentence 111
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.
South Korea requested military support from the United States but was denied, while North Korea's military was heavily reinforced by the Soviet Union.
Who acts: South Korea, Soviet Union · What happens: request, deny, reinforce · To what, where: military support, United States, military
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 (South Korea, Soviet Union), 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 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Korea | compound |
| 2 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 requested | nsubj |
| 3 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 support | amod |
| 5 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 requested | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 States | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 States | det |
| 8 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 States | amod |
| 9 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 requested | obl |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 denied | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 denied | aux:pass |
| 12 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 requested | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reinforced | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 reinforced | mark |
| 15 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Korea | compound |
| 16 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 military | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Korea | case |
| 18 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reinforced | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 reinforced | aux:pass |
| 20 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 21 reinforced | advmod |
| 21 | reinforced | reinforce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 denied | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Union | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Union | det |
| 24 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Union | compound |
| 25 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 reinforced | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 requested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | past | South Korea | military support | the United States | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent support=Recipient | |||
| 2 | deny | past · passive | South Korea not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 3 | reinforce | past · passive | the Soviet Union | North Korea's military | heavily property | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=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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