South Korea, sentence 497
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.
People of the upper classes built bigger houses with elegantly curved tiled roofs and lifting eaves.
Who acts: People · What happens: build, curve, tile, lift · To what, where: bigger houses
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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 built | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 classes | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 classes | det |
| 4 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 classes | amod |
| 5 | classes | class | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 People | nmod |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 houses | amod |
| 8 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 built | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 roofs | case |
| 10 | elegantly | elegantly | ADV | _ | 11 curved | advmod |
| 11 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 roofs | amod |
| 12 | tiled | tile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 roofs | amod |
| 13 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 houses | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eaves | cc |
| 15 | lifting | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 eaves | amod |
| 16 | eaves | eave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 roofs | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | People of the upper classes | bigger houses | with curved tiled roofs and lifting eaves | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent house=Theme with roof=Source | |||
| 2 | curve | participle | elegantly property | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | |||||
| 3 | tile | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | lift | gerund | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: 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.
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