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title: In 2025, North Korea ranked 179th out of 180 countries in Reporters… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2025, North Korea ranked 179th out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders' annual World Press Freedom Index. Who acts: North Korea. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Korea, sentence 471

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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 2025, North Korea ranked 179th out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders' annual World Press Freedom Index.

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**Who acts:** North Korea · **What happens:** rank · **To what, where:** 179th, 2025

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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 (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:471
# text = In 2025, North Korea ranked 179th out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders' annual World Press Freedom Index.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ranked	rank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	179th	179th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	180	180	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Reporters	Reporter	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
15	Borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Press	Press	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Freedom	Freedom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Index	Index	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | past | North Korea | 179th |  | 2025 |  | out 180 countries in Reporters; without Borders's annual Freedom Index | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent 179th=Theme |

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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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