South Korea, sentence 54
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.
In addition to contesting control of the Korean Peninsula, Goguryeo had many military conflicts with various Chinese dynasties, most notably the Goguryeo–Sui War, in which Goguryeo defeated a huge force said to number over a million men.
Who acts: Goguryeo, huge force · What happens: contest, have, defeat, say · To what, where: control, many military conflicts, addition, Goguryeo · 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 (Goguryeo, huge force), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 addition | case |
| 2 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 3 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 4 contesting | mark |
| 4 | contesting | contest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 addition | acl |
| 5 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contesting | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Peninsula | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Peninsula | det |
| 8 | Korean | korean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Peninsula | amod |
| 9 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 control | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 addition | punct |
| 11 | Goguryeo | Goguryeo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 conflicts | amod |
| 14 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 conflicts | amod |
| 15 | conflicts | conflict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 dynasties | case |
| 17 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dynasties | amod |
| 18 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dynasties | amod |
| 19 | dynasties | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 conflicts | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Goguryeo | punct |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 notably | advmod |
| 22 | notably | notably | ADV | _ | 24 Goguryeo | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Goguryeo | det |
| 24 | Goguryeo | Goguryeo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 dynasties | nmod |
| 25 | – | – | PUNCT | _ | 27 War | punct |
| 26 | Sui | Sui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 War | compound |
| 27 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Goguryeo | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 defeated | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 defeated | obl |
| 31 | Goguryeo | Goguryeo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 defeated | nsubj |
| 32 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Goguryeo | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 force | det |
| 34 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 force | amod |
| 35 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 said | nsubj |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 defeated | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 number | mark |
| 38 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 said | ccomp |
| 39 | over | over | ADP | _ | 42 men | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 million | det |
| 41 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 men | nummod |
| 42 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 number | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contest | gerund | Goguryeo not said here | control of the Korean Peninsula | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Goguryeo | many military conflicts | addition | with various Chinese dynasties the Goguryeo Sui War | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conflict=Patient | ||
| 3 | defeat | past | Goguryeo | the Goguryeo Sui War | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a huge force | number over million men ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
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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