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title: North Korea is a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship with a compreh… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: North Korea is a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship with a comprehensive cult of personality around the Kim family. Who acts: North Korea. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Korea, sentence 18

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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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North Korea is a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship with a comprehensive cult of personality around the Kim family.

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**Who acts:** North Korea · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** totalitarian hereditary dictatorship

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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 (North Korea), 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:18
# text = North Korea is a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship with a comprehensive cult of personality around the Kim family.
1	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	totalitarian	totalitarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	hereditary	hereditary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dictatorship	dictatorship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	comprehensive	comprehensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cult	cult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	personality	personality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Kim	Kim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 | North Korea | a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship |  |  |  | with a comprehensive cult of personality around the Kim family | tree rules |

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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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