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title: It was the provincial capital of South Pyongan Province beginning in… — Pyongyang · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the provincial capital of South Pyongan Province beginning in 1896. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pyongyang» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pyongyang, sentence 50

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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 was the provincial capital of South Pyongan Province beginning in 1896.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** provincial capital

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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 (country), 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:50
# text = It was the provincial capital of South Pyongan Province beginning in 1896.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	provincial	provincial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Pyongan	Pyongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1896	1896	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | country | the provincial capital |  |  | of Province beginning in 1896 |  | 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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