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title: During the Japanese colonial rule, Japan tried to develop the city a… — Pyongyang · tree and pragmatics
description: During the Japanese colonial rule, Japan tried to develop the city as an industrial center, but faced the March First Movement in 1919 and severe anti-Japanese socialist movements in 1920s due to economic exploitation. Who acts: Japan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pyongyang» with its dependency tree a
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# Pyongyang, sentence 51

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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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During the Japanese colonial rule, Japan tried to develop the city as an industrial center, but faced the March First Movement in 1919 and severe anti-Japanese socialist movements in 1920s due to economic exploitation.

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**Who acts:** Japan · **What happens:** try, develop, face · **To what, where:** city, March First Movement

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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 (Japan), 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:51
# text = During the Japanese colonial rule, Japan tried to develop the city as an industrial center, but faced the March First Movement in 1919 and severe anti-Japanese socialist movements in 1920s due to economic exploitation.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	develop	develop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	industrial	industrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	First	First	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	Movement	Movement	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1919	1919	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	anti-Japanese	anti-japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	socialist	socialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	1920s	1920s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
33	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	36	case	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	exploitation	exploitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Japan |  |  |  | during the Japanese colonial rule |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **develop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Japan *not said here* | the city |  |  |  | as a industrial center | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Product |
| 3 | **face** | past | Japan *not said here* |  | the March First Movement |  |  | in 1919; severe anti-Japanese socialist movements in 1920s due economic exploitation *conj* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent movement=Destination in 1919=Theme |

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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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