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title: It is the McCune–Reischauer romanisation of the Korean term '평양', wh… — Pyongyang · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the McCune–Reischauer romanisation of the Korean term '평양', which translates to 'flat land', reflecting the smooth terrain of the city. Who acts: name, Reischauer romanisation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pyongyang» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pyongyang, sentence 16

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From Wikipedia, [«Pyongyang»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang), 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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It is the McCune–Reischauer romanisation of the Korean term '평양', which translates to 'flat land', reflecting the smooth terrain of the city.

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**Who acts:** name, Reischauer romanisation · **What happens:** be, translate, reflect · **To what, where:** Reischauer romanisation, smooth terrain

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pyongyang». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Reischauer romanisation), 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:Pyongyang:16
# text = It is the McCune–Reischauer romanisation of the Korean term '평양', which translates to 'flat land', reflecting the smooth terrain of the city.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	McCune	McCune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	–	–	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Reischauer	Reischauer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	romanisation	romanisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	평양	평양	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	translates	translate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	terrain	terrain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | name | Reischauer romanisation |  |  |  | of the Korean term; the McCune *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **translate** | present | Reischauer romanisation |  |  |  |  | to flat land | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **reflect** | gerund | Reischauer romanisation *not said here* | the smooth terrain of the city |  |  |  |  | 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, «Pyongyang», 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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