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title: The North failed in several assassination attempts on South Korean l… — North Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: The North failed in several assassination attempts on South Korean leaders, such as in 1968, 1974, and the Rangoon bombing in 1983; tunnels were found under the DMZ and tensions flared over the axe murder incident at Panmunjom in 1976. Who acts: North, tensions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Kore
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# North Korea, sentence 87

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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 North failed in several assassination attempts on South Korean leaders, such as in 1968, 1974, and the Rangoon bombing in 1983; tunnels were found under the DMZ and tensions flared over the axe murder incident at Panmunjom in 1976.

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**Who acts:** North, tensions · **What happens:** fail, find, flare · **To what, where:** Rangoon bombing, several assassination attempts, tunnels, DMZ, murder incident

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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, tensions), 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:87
# text = The North failed in several assassination attempts on South Korean leaders, such as in 1968, 1974, and the Rangoon bombing in 1983; tunnels were found under the DMZ and tensions flared over the axe murder incident at Panmunjom in 1976.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	assassination	assassination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1968	1968	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Rangoon	Rangoon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bombing	bombing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1983	1983	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
30	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	DMZ	DMZ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	tensions	tension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	flared	flare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Panmunjom	Panmunjom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	1976	1976	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | past | the North | the Rangoon bombing in 1983 |  | several assassination attempts on South Korean leaders |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in attempt=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive |  | tunnels |  | the DMZ |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **flare** | past | tensions |  |  | the murder incident at Panmunjom |  | in 1976 | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over incident=Location |

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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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