South Korea, sentence 16
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 endured a series of dictatorships punctuated by coups, revolutions, and violent uprisings, but also experienced a soaring economy and one of the fastest rises in average GDP per capita, leading to its emergence as one of the Four Asian Tigers.
Who acts: South Korea, economy · What happens: endure, punctuate, experience, soar, lead, emerge · To what, where: series, dictatorships, soaring economy
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, economy), 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 endured | nsubj |
| 3 | endured | endure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 series | det |
| 5 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 endured | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 dictatorships | case |
| 7 | dictatorships | dictatorship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 series | nmod |
| 8 | punctuated | punctuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dictatorships | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 coups | case |
| 10 | coups | coup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 punctuated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 revolutions | punct |
| 12 | revolutions | revolution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 coups | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 uprisings | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 uprisings | cc |
| 15 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 uprisings | amod |
| 16 | uprisings | uprising | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 endured | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 experienced | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 experienced | cc |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 experienced | advmod |
| 20 | experienced | experience | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 endured | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 economy | det |
| 22 | soaring | soar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 economy | amod |
| 23 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 experienced | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 one | cc |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 economy | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 rises | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rises | det |
| 28 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 rises | amod |
| 29 | rises | rise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 one | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 GDP | case |
| 31 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 GDP | amod |
| 32 | GDP | gdp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rises | nmod |
| 33 | per | per | ADP | _ | 34 capita | case |
| 34 | capita | capita | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 GDP | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 leading | punct |
| 36 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 experienced | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 emergence | case |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 emergence | nmod:poss |
| 39 | emergence | emergence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 leading | obl |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 one | case |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 leading | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Tigers | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Tigers | det |
| 44 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 Tigers | nummod |
| 45 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Tigers | amod |
| 46 | Tigers | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Plur | 41 one | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 endured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endure | past | South Korea | a series of dictatorships | violent uprisings obl | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme series=Circumstance | |||
| 2 | punctuate | participle | dictatorships not said here | by coups and revolutions | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | experience | past | South Korea not said here | a soaring economy | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer economy=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | soar | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | lead | gerund | South Korea not said here | to economy's emergence; as one of the Four Asian Tigers | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to emergence=Patient | ||||
| 6 | emerge | economy | nom emergence «event intransitive»: 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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