--- title: After Kim Il Sung's death in 1994, some members of Kim Jong Il's fac… — Pyongyang · tree and pragmatics description: After Kim Il Sung's death in 1994, some members of Kim Jong Il's faction proposed changing the name of Pyongyang to "Kim Il Sung City", but others suggested that North Korea should begin calling Seoul "Kim Il Sung City" instead and grant Pyongyang the moniker "Kim Jong Il City". 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After Kim Il Sung's death in 1994, some members of Kim Jong Il's faction proposed changing the name of Pyongyang to "Kim Il Sung City", but others suggested that North Korea should begin calling Seoul "Kim Il Sung City" instead and grant Pyongyang the moniker "Kim Jong Il City". **Who acts:** members, others, North, Kim Il · **What happens:** propose, change, suggest, begin, call, grant · **To what, where:** name, Il Sung City, Pyongyang · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (members, others, North, Kim Il), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:23 # text = After Kim Il Sung's death in 1994, some members of Kim Jong Il's faction proposed changing the name of Pyongyang to "Kim Il Sung City", but others suggested that North Korea should begin calling Seoul "Kim Il Sung City" instead and grant Pyongyang the moniker "Kim Jong Il City". 1 After after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 Kim Kim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Il Il PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 Sung Sung PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 6 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1994 1994 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 Kim Kim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Jong Jong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Il Il PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 faction faction NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 18 proposed propose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Pyongyang Pyongyang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Kim Kim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Il Il PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 Sung Sung PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 suggested suggest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 Korea Korea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 flat _ _ 38 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 ccomp _ _ 40 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 xcomp _ _ 41 Seoul Seoul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Kim Kim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 Il Il PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 45 Sung Sung PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 48 instead instead ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 grant grant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 51 Pyongyang Pyongyang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 moniker moniker NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 appos _ _ 54 " " PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 Kim Kim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 compound _ _ 56 Jong Jong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 flat _ _ 57 Il Il PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 compound _ _ 58 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 59 " " PUNCT '' _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **propose** | past | some members of Jong Il's faction | | | | after Kim Il's death in 1994 | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **change** | gerund | some members of Jong Il's faction *not said here* | the name of Pyongyang | | | | Il Sung City *obj* | tree rules | | 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **begin** | should | North | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **call** | gerund | North *not said here* | | Il Sung City Seoul | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent city=Recipient | | 6 | **grant** | infinitive | North *not said here* | Pyongyang | | | | instead *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent pyongyang=Theme | | 7 | **die** | | Kim Il | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **name** | | | Pyongyang | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Pyongyang/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Pyongyang/24/) - ↑ back to [Pyongyang](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Pyongyang/)