South Korea, sentence 142
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 transition of Korea from autocracy to modern democracy was marked in 1997 by the election of Kim Dae-jung, who was sworn in as the eighth president of South Korea on February 25, 1998.
Who acts: election, Korea · What happens: mark, swear, transition, elect · To what, where: transition, 1997, jung, eighth president, autocracy, Kim
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 (election, Korea), 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 | 2 transition | det |
| 2 | transition | transition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Korea | case |
| 4 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 transition | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 autocracy | case |
| 6 | autocracy | autocracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 transition | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 democracy | case |
| 8 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 democracy | amod |
| 9 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 autocracy | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 marked | aux:pass |
| 11 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1997 | case |
| 13 | 1997 | 1997 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 marked | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 election | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 election | det |
| 16 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marked | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Kim | case |
| 18 | Kim | Kim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 election | nmod |
| 19 | Dae | Dae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Kim | flat |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 jung | punct |
| 21 | jung | jung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Kim | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sworn | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 sworn | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sworn | aux:pass |
| 25 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 jung | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 president | case |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 president | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 president | det |
| 29 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 president | amod |
| 30 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sworn | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Korea | case |
| 32 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Korea | compound |
| 33 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 president | nmod |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 25 | case |
| 35 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 36 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 sworn | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 25 | punct |
| 38 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past · passive | the election of Kim | the transition of Korea from autocracy to modern democracy | 1997 | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1997=Destination | |||
| 2 | swear | past · passive | jung | the eighth president of South Korea | on 25 February 1998 | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | transition | Korea | autocracy to modern democracy | nom transition «act intransitive»: of=agent from=place | |||||
| 4 | elect | Kim | nom election «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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