--- title: After four failed attempts, North Korea became the tenth spacefaring… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics description: After four failed attempts, North Korea became the tenth spacefaring nation with the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2 in December 2012, which successfully reached orbit but was believed to be crippled and non-operational. Who acts: four, North, 3 Unit. 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After four failed attempts, North Korea became the tenth spacefaring nation with the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2 in December 2012, which successfully reached orbit but was believed to be crippled and non-operational. **Who acts:** four, North, 3 Unit · **What happens:** fail, become, reach, believe, be · **To what, where:** attempts, tenth spacefaring nation, orbit 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 (four, North, 3 Unit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:341 # text = After four failed attempts, North Korea became the tenth spacefaring nation with the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2 in December 2012, which successfully reached orbit but was believed to be crippled and non-operational. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nsubj _ _ 3 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 attempts attempt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 Korea Korea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 tenth tenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 spacefaring spacefaring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 launch launch NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Kwangmyŏngsŏng Kwangmyŏngsŏng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 19 case _ SpaceAfter=No 19 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 Unit unit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 flat _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 2012 2012 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 successfully successfully ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 29 orbit orbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 believed believe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 35 crippled crippled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 non-operational non-operational ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fail** | past | four | attempts | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Eventuality | | 2 | **become** | past | North | the tenth spacefaring nation with the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng 3 Unit in December 2012 | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **reach** | past | 3 Unit in December 2012 | orbit | | | | successfully *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent orbit=Theme | | 4 | **believe** | past · passive | 3 Unit in December 2012 *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | 3 Unit in December 2012 *not said here* | | | | | crippled *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | 3 Unit in December 2012 *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 340](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/North_Korea/340/) - next →: [sentence 342](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/North_Korea/342/) - ↑ back to [North Korea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/North_Korea/)