South Korea, sentence 58
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.
Silla was the smallest and weakest of the three, but used opportunistic pacts and alliances with the more powerful Korean kingdoms, and eventually Tang China, to its advantage.
Who acts: Silla · What happens: be, use · To what, where: opportunistic pacts
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 (Silla), 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 | Silla | Silla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 smallest | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smallest | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 smallest | det |
| 4 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 weakest | cc |
| 6 | weakest | weak | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 smallest | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 three | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 three | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 weakest | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 used | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 used | cc |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smallest | conj |
| 13 | opportunistic | opportunistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pacts | amod |
| 14 | pacts | pact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 used | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 alliances | cc |
| 16 | alliances | alliance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pacts | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 kingdoms | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kingdoms | det |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 powerful | advmod |
| 20 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kingdoms | amod |
| 21 | Korean | korean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kingdoms | amod |
| 22 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pacts | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 China | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 China | cc |
| 25 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 27 China | advmod |
| 26 | Tang | Tang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 China | compound |
| 27 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 used | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 advantage | punct |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 advantage | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 advantage | nmod:poss |
| 31 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 used | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smallest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Silla | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Silla not said here | of the three | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | use | past | Silla not said here | opportunistic pacts and alliances | with the powerful Korean kingdoms; to kingdom's advantage; Tang China obl | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pact=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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