South Korea, sentence 32
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.
Despite the coexistence of the spellings Corea and Korea in 19th-century publications, some Koreans believe that Imperial Japan intentionally standardized the spelling of Korea in order to make Japan appear first alphabetically during occupation.
Who acts: Koreans, Imperial, Japan, spellings · What happens: believe, standardize, make, appear, coexist, spell · To what, where: spelling, order, Japan, Korea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Koreans, Imperial, Japan, spellings), 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 3 coexistence | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coexistence | det |
| 3 | coexistence | coexistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 believe | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 spellings | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spellings | det |
| 6 | spellings | spelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 coexistence | nmod |
| 7 | Corea | Corea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spellings | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Korea | cc |
| 9 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Corea | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 publications | case |
| 11 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 13 century | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 19th | punct |
| 13 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 publications | compound |
| 14 | publications | publication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Corea | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 coexistence | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 Koreans | det |
| 17 | Koreans | Korean | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 believe | nsubj |
| 18 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 standardized | mark |
| 20 | Imperial | Imperial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 standardized | nsubj |
| 21 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Imperial | flat |
| 22 | intentionally | intentionally | ADV | _ | 23 standardized | advmod |
| 23 | standardized | standardize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 believe | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spelling | det |
| 25 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 standardized | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Korea | case |
| 27 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 spelling | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 order | case |
| 29 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 standardized | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 standardized | advcl |
| 32 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 make | obj |
| 33 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 make | xcomp |
| 34 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 alphabetically | advmod |
| 35 | alphabetically | alphabetically | ADV | _ | 33 appear | advmod |
| 36 | during | during | ADP | _ | 37 occupation | case |
| 37 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 appear | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | some Koreans | despite the coexistence of the spellings | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | standardize | past | Imperial | the spelling of Korea | order | intentionally property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient | ||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Imperial not said here | Japan | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | appear | infinitive | Japan not said here | during occupation | alphabetically property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | coexist | the spellings | nom coexistence «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | spell | Korea | nom spelling «communication 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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