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title: The agricultural sector was shattered by the natural disasters of th… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: The agricultural sector was shattered by the natural disasters of the 1990s. Who acts: natural disasters. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Korea, sentence 308

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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 agricultural sector was shattered by the natural disasters of the 1990s.

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**Who acts:** natural disasters · **What happens:** shatter · **To what, where:** agricultural sector

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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 (natural disasters), 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:308
# text = The agricultural sector was shattered by the natural disasters of the 1990s.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	shattered	shatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	disasters	disaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shatter** | past · passive | the natural disasters of the 1990s | the agricultural sector |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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