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title: The target was to cut pollution to over 30% below the legal limit of… — Seoul · tree and pragmatics
description: The target was to cut pollution to over 30% below the legal limit of 50 μg/m3. Who acts: target. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seoul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seoul, sentence 154

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From Wikipedia, [«Seoul»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul), 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 target was to cut pollution to over 30% below the legal limit of 50 μg/m3.

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**Who acts:** target · **What happens:** cut · **To what, where:** pollution

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Seoul». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (target), 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:Seoul:154
# text = The target was to cut pollution to over 30% below the legal limit of 50 μg/m3.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	target	target	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	pollution	pollution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	below	below	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	μg/m3	μg/m3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past | the target | pollution |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent pollution=Patient to %=Result |

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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, «Seoul», 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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