South Korea, sentence 87
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.
Through a series of successful battles of attrition, the Japanese forces were eventually forced to withdraw, and relations between all parties became normalized.
Who acts: Japanese forces, relations · What happens: force, withdraw, become, normalize, battle · To what, where: Japanese forces, series, attrition
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 (Japanese forces, relations), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 series | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 series | det |
| 3 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 battles | case |
| 5 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 battles | amod |
| 6 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 series | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 attrition | case |
| 8 | attrition | attrition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 battles | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 series | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forces | det |
| 11 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 forces | amod |
| 12 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forced | aux:pass |
| 14 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 15 forced | advmod |
| 15 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 withdraw | mark |
| 17 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 forced | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 became | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 became | cc |
| 20 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 became | nsubj |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 parties | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 parties | det |
| 23 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 relations | nmod |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forced | conj |
| 25 | normalized | normalize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 became | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · passive | the Japanese forces | a series of successful battles of attrition | eventually property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | withdraw | to-infinitive | the Japanese forces not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | past | relations between all parties | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | normalize | participle | relations between all parties not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | battle | attrition | nom battle «act transitive»: of=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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