South Korea, sentence 216
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.
Today, The World Factbook describes South Korea's democracy as a "fully functioning modern democracy", while The Economist Democracy Index classifies it as a "flawed democracy", ranking at 32nd out of 167 countries in 2024.
Who acts: World Factbook, Democracy Index · What happens: describe, classify, flaw, rank · To what, where: democracy, Factbook, 32nd
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 (World Factbook, Democracy Index), 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 | Today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 describes | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Today | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Factbook | det |
| 4 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Factbook | compound |
| 5 | Factbook | Factbook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 describes | nsubj |
| 6 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Korea | compound |
| 8 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 democracy | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Korea | case |
| 10 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 describes | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 democracy | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 democracy | det |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 democracy | punct |
| 14 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 15 functioning | advmod |
| 15 | functioning | functioning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 democracy | amod |
| 16 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 democracy | amod |
| 17 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 describes | xcomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 democracy | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 classifies | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 classifies | mark |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Index | det |
| 22 | Economist | Economist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Democracy | compound |
| 23 | Democracy | Democracy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Index | compound |
| 24 | Index | index | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 classifies | nsubj |
| 25 | classifies | classify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 describes | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 classifies | obj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 democracy | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 democracy | det |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 flawed | punct |
| 30 | flawed | flaw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 democracy | amod |
| 31 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 classifies | obl |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 democracy | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ranking | punct |
| 34 | ranking | rank | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 classifies | advcl |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 32nd | case |
| 36 | 32nd | 32nd | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 34 ranking | obl |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 countries | case |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 countries | case |
| 39 | 167 | 167 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 countries | nummod |
| 40 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 ranking | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 2024 | case |
| 42 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 ranking | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 describes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | the World Factbook | South Korea's democracy | today | a functioning modern democracy xcomp | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent democracy=Theme | ||
| 2 | classify | present | the Democracy Index | Factbook | as a flawed democracy | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as democracy=Attribute | |||
| 3 | flaw in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | rank | gerund | the Democracy Index not said here | 32nd | out 167 countries; in 2024 | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «South Korea», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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