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title: However, relations have sometimes been strained because of China's c… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: However, relations have sometimes been strained because of China's concerns about North Korea's nuclear program. Who acts: China, North Korea. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Korea, sentence 215

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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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However, relations have sometimes been strained because of China's concerns about North Korea's nuclear program.

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**Who acts:** China, North Korea · **What happens:** strain, concern, program · **To what, where:** relations

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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 (China, 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:215
# text = However, relations have sometimes been strained because of China's concerns about North Korea's nuclear program.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	strained	strain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	concerns	concern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	nuclear	nuclear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	program	program	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strain** | present · perfect · passive |  | relations |  |  |  | because China's concerns about North Korea's nuclear program; however, sometimes *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **concern** |  | China |  |  |  |  | about North Korea's nuclear program | nom concern «cognition transitive»: poss=agent about=obl |
| 3 | **program** |  | North Korea |  |  |  |  |  | nom program «cognition transitive»: poss=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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