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title: Throughout 2017, following Donald Trump's ascension to the US presid… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: Throughout 2017, following Donald Trump's ascension to the US presidency, relations between the United States and North Korea worsened, and there was a period of heightened tension between the two countries. Who acts: relations, period. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Korea» with its dependency tre
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# North Korea, sentence 106

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From Wikipedia, [«North Korea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Throughout 2017, following Donald Trump's ascension to the US presidency, relations between the United States and North Korea worsened, and there was a period of heightened tension between the two countries.

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**Who acts:** relations, period · **What happens:** follow, worsen, be, heighten

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «North Korea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relations, period), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:North_Korea:106
# text = Throughout 2017, following Donald Trump's ascension to the US presidency, relations between the United States and North Korea worsened, and there was a period of heightened tension between the two countries.
1	Throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	case	_	_
5	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Trump	Trump	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
8	ascension	ascension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	presidency	presidency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	worsened	worsen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	heightened	heighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	tension	tension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	between	between	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **worsen** | past | relations between the United States and North Korea |  |  |  | throughout 2017 | follow Donald's ascension to the US presidency | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **be** | past | a period of heightened tension between the two countries |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **heighten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «North 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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