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title: The U.S. State Department has estimated that North Korea's military… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: The U.S. State Department has estimated that North Korea's military spending averaged 23% of its GDP from 2004 to 2014, the highest level in the world. Who acts: U.S. State Department, military spending, North Korea. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Korea, sentence 252

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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 U.S. State Department has estimated that North Korea's military spending averaged 23% of its GDP from 2004 to 2014, the highest level in the world.

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**Who acts:** U.S. State Department, military spending, North Korea · **What happens:** estimate, average, spend · **To what, where:** highest level, 2004

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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 (U.S. State Department, military spending, 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:252
# text = The U.S. State Department has estimated that North Korea's military spending averaged 23% of its GDP from 2004 to 2014, the highest level in the world.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	spending	spending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	averaged	average	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	GDP	gdp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **estimate** | present · perfect | the U.S. State Department |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **average** | past | North Korea's military spending | the highest level in the world |  | 2004 to 2014 |  |  | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Theme |
| 3 | **spend** |  | North Korea |  |  |  |  |  | nom spending «act 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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