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title: In an attempt to recover from the collapse, the government began str… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: In an attempt to recover from the collapse, the government began structural reforms in 1998 that formally legalized private ownership of assets and decentralized control over production. Who acts: government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Korea, sentence 291

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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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In an attempt to recover from the collapse, the government began structural reforms in 1998 that formally legalized private ownership of assets and decentralized control over production.

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** recover, begin, legalize, decentralize · **To what, where:** collapse, structural reforms, attempt

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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 (government), 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:291
# text = In an attempt to recover from the collapse, the government began structural reforms in 1998 that formally legalized private ownership of assets and decentralized control over production.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	collapse	collapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	structural	structural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	reforms	reform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	legalized	legalize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ownership	ownership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	assets	asset	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	decentralized	decentralize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* |  |  | the collapse |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from collapse=Source |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the government | structural reforms |  | a attempt |  | in 1998 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reform=Eventuality |
| 3 | **legalize** | past |  | structural reforms |  |  |  | private ownership of assets and decentralized control over production *obj*; formally *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **decentralize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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