South Korea, sentence 396
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.
However, it was expected to peak at 52 million in 2024 and decline to 36 million by 2072, owing to a rapid decline in birth rates that began in 1960.
Who acts: population, birth rates · What happens: expect, peak, owe, begin · To what, where: population, 52 million, rapid decline, 1960
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 (population, birth rates), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 expected | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 expected | aux:pass |
| 5 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 peak | mark |
| 7 | peak | peak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 expected | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 million | case |
| 9 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 million | compound |
| 10 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 peak | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 2024 | case |
| 12 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 million | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 decline | cc |
| 14 | decline | decline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 million | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 million | case |
| 16 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 million | compound |
| 17 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 decline | nmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 2072 | case |
| 19 | 2072 | 2072 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 peak | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 owing | punct |
| 21 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 peak | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 decline | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 decline | det |
| 24 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 decline | amod |
| 25 | decline | decline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 owing | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 rates | case |
| 27 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rates | compound |
| 28 | rates | rate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 decline | nmod |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 began | nsubj |
| 30 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 rates | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 1960 | case |
| 32 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 began | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past · passive | population | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | peak not said to happen | to-infinitive | population not said here | 52 million in 2024 and decline to 36 million | by 2072 | tree rules | |||
| 3 | owe | gerund | population not said here | to a rapid decline in birth rates goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to decline=Goal | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | birth rates | 1960 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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