South Korea, sentence 466
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.
A strong investment in education, a militant drive to achieve academic success, as well as the passion for scholarly excellence has helped the resource-poor country rapidly grow its economy over the past 60 years from a war-torn land to a prosperous, developed country.
Who acts: strong investment · What happens: achieve, help, grow, tear, develop · To what, where: academic success, poor country, economy, torn land
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 (strong investment), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 investment | det |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 investment | amod |
| 3 | investment | investment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 helped | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 education | case |
| 5 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 investment | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drive | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drive | det |
| 8 | militant | militant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drive | amod |
| 9 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 investment | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 achieve | mark |
| 11 | achieve | achieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 drive | acl |
| 12 | academic | academic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 success | amod |
| 13 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 achieve | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 passion | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 19 passion | cc |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 passion | det |
| 19 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 investment | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 excellence | case |
| 21 | scholarly | scholarly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 excellence | amod |
| 22 | excellence | excellence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passion | nmod |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 helped | aux |
| 24 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 grow | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 country | det |
| 26 | resource | resource | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 poor | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 resource | punct |
| 28 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 country | amod |
| 29 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 helped | obj |
| 30 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 31 grow | advmod |
| 31 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 economy | nmod:poss |
| 33 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grow | obj |
| 34 | over | over | ADP | _ | 38 years | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 years | det |
| 36 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 years | amod |
| 37 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 years | nummod |
| 38 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 grow | obl |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 land | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 land | det |
| 41 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 torn | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 war | punct |
| 43 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 land | amod |
| 44 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grow | obl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 country | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 country | det |
| 47 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 developed | compound |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 prosperous | punct |
| 49 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 country | amod |
| 50 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 land | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | achieve | to-infinitive | a strong investment in education and a militant drive as the passion for scholarly excellence not said here | academic success | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | help | present · perfect | a strong investment in education and a militant drive as the passion for scholarly excellence | the poor country | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | country's economy | a torn land to a developed country | year | rapidly property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent economy=Product from land=Material | ||
| 4 | tear | participle | war compound | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | develop | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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