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title: The initial project was approved by the International Atomic Energy… — Pyongyang · tree and pragmatics
description: The initial project was approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1983 and funded by the IAEA, the United States and the North Korean government. Who acts: International Energy Agency. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pyongyang» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pyongyang, sentence 267

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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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The initial project was approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1983 and funded by the IAEA, the United States and the North Korean government.

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**Who acts:** International Energy Agency · **What happens:** approve, fund · **To what, where:** initial project, 1983

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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 (International Energy 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:Pyongyang:267
# text = The initial project was approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1983 and funded by the IAEA, the United States and the North Korean government.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	initial	initial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	Atomic	Atomic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Energy	Energy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Agency	Agency	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	IAEA	IAEA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1983	1983	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	funded	fund	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	IAEA	IAEA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approve** | past · passive | the International Energy Agency | the initial project |  | 1983 |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **fund** | participle | the International Energy Agency *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the IAEA and the United States and the North Korean government | 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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