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title: During the 1956 August faction incident, Kim Il Sung purged the riva… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: During the 1956 August faction incident, Kim Il Sung purged the rival Soviet and Yan'an factions and successfully resisted efforts by the Soviet Union and China to depose him. Who acts: Kim Il. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Korea, sentence 72

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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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During the 1956 August faction incident, Kim Il Sung purged the rival Soviet and Yan'an factions and successfully resisted efforts by the Soviet Union and China to depose him.

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**Who acts:** Kim Il · **What happens:** purge, resist, depose · **To what, where:** rival Soviet factions, Il

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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 (Kim Il), 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:72
# text = During the 1956 August faction incident, Kim Il Sung purged the rival Soviet and Yan'an factions and successfully resisted efforts by the Soviet Union and China to depose him.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	1956	1956	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	faction	faction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Kim	Kim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Il	Il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	purged	purge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	rival	rival	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Yan'an	Yan'an	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	factions	faction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	resisted	resist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	depose	depose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purge** | past | Kim Il | the rival Soviet factions and resisted efforts |  |  | during the faction incident | by the Soviet Union and China | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent faction=Source |
| 2 | **resist** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | successfully *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **depose** | to-infinitive | Kim Il *not said here* | Il |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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