South Korea, sentence 257
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.
Historically, Korea had close relations with the dynasties in China, and some Korean kingdoms were members of the Imperial Chinese tributary system.
Who acts: Korea, Korean kingdoms · What happens: have, be · To what, where: close relations, members
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 (Korea, Korean kingdoms), 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 | Historically | historically | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Historically | punct |
| 3 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 relations | amod |
| 6 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 dynasties | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dynasties | det |
| 9 | dynasties | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 relations | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 China | case |
| 11 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dynasties | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 members | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 members | cc |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 kingdoms | det |
| 15 | Korean | korean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kingdoms | amod |
| 16 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 members | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 members | cop |
| 18 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 system | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 system | det |
| 21 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 system | amod |
| 22 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 system | amod |
| 23 | tributary | tributary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 system | compound |
| 24 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 members | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Korea | close relations | with the dynasties in China; historically property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | some Korean kingdoms | members | of the Imperial Chinese tributary system | tree rules |
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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