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title: The legal system created by the SPA, and overseen by the Supreme Cou… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: The legal system created by the SPA, and overseen by the Supreme Court, is a civil law system based on the Prussian model and influenced by Japanese traditions and communist legal theory. Who acts: legal system. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Korea, sentence 167

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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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The legal system created by the SPA, and overseen by the Supreme Court, is a civil law system based on the Prussian model and influenced by Japanese traditions and communist legal theory.

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**Who acts:** legal system · **What happens:** create, oversee, be, base, influence · **To what, where:** legal system, SPA, civil law system

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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 (legal system), 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:167
# text = The legal system created by the SPA, and overseen by the Supreme Court, is a civil law system based on the Prussian model and influenced by Japanese traditions and communist legal theory.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
4	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	SPA	SPA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	overseen	oversee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Prussian	prussian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | participle |  | the legal system *not said here* |  |  |  | the SPA *obl:agent* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **oversee** | participle |  | the SPA *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Supreme Court | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent by court=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the legal system | a civil law system |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **base** | participle |  | a civil law system *not said here* |  |  |  | on the Prussian model | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on model=Source |
| 5 | **influence** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Japanese traditions and communist legal theory | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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