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title: NKnews – a news agency covering North Korean topics — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: NKnews – a news agency covering North Korean topics Who acts: news agency. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Korea, sentence 603

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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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NKnews – a news agency covering North Korean topics

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**Who acts:** news agency · **What happens:** cover · **To what, where:** North, NKnews

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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 (news agency), 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:603
# text = NKnews – a news agency covering North Korean topics
1	NKnews	nknews	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	agency	agency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	topics	topic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | gerund | a news agency *not said here* | North |  |  |  | Korean topics *obj* | tree rules |

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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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