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title: To its west are the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay, and to its east lies J… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: To its west are the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay, and to its east lies Japan across the Sea of Japan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Korea, sentence 113

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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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To its west are the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay, and to its east lies Japan across the Sea of Japan.

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**What happens:** be, lie · **To what, where:** Yellow Sea, Japan, Sea

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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: 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:113
# text = To its west are the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay, and to its east lies Japan across the Sea of Japan.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	across	across	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay |  |  |  | to portion's west; Korea Bay *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | present |  | Japan |  | the Sea of Japan |  | to portion's east | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location japan=Theme |

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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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