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title: Initially, North Korea had diplomatic ties only with other communist… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: Initially, North Korea had diplomatic ties only with other communist countries, and even today, most of the foreign embassies accredited to North Korea are located in Beijing rather than in Pyongyang. Who acts: North Korea. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# North Korea, sentence 209

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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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Initially, North Korea had diplomatic ties only with other communist countries, and even today, most of the foreign embassies accredited to North Korea are located in Beijing rather than in Pyongyang.

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**Who acts:** North Korea · **What happens:** have, accredit, locate · **To what, where:** diplomatic ties, most foreign embassies, North Korea, Beijing

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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:209
# text = Initially, North Korea had diplomatic ties only with other communist countries, and even today, most of the foreign embassies accredited to North Korea are located in Beijing rather than in Pyongyang.
1	Initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	embassies	embassy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	accredited	accredit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	34	cc	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Pyongyang	Pyongyang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | North Korea | diplomatic ties |  |  |  | with other communist countries; initially *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=Patient |
| 2 | **accredit** | participle |  | the most foreign embassies *not said here* | North Korea |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **locate** | present · passive |  | the most foreign embassies |  | Beijing rather Pyongyang | today |  | 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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