---
title: Korea World Trade Center Complex, which comprises COEX mall, congres… — Seoul · tree and pragmatics
description: Korea World Trade Center Complex, which comprises COEX mall, congress center, 3 Inter-continental hotels, Business tower (Asem tower), Residence hotel, Casino and City airport terminal was established in 1988 in time for the Seoul Olympics. Who acts: Center Complex. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seoul»
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Seoul/230/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Seoul](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Seoul/) / 230

# Seoul, sentence 230

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Korea World Trade Center Complex, which comprises COEX mall, congress center, 3 Inter-continental hotels, Business tower (Asem tower), Residence hotel, Casino and City airport terminal was established in 1988 in time for the Seoul Olympics.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Center Complex · **What happens:** comprise, establish · **To what, where:** COEX mall, Casino, 1988

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Center Complex), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:230
# text = Korea World Trade Center Complex, which comprises COEX mall, congress center, 3 Inter-continental hotels, Business tower (Asem tower), Residence hotel, Casino and City airport terminal was established in 1988 in time for the Seoul Olympics.
1	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Trade	Trade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Center	Center	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Complex	Complex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comprises	comprise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	COEX	COEX	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	mall	mall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	congress	congress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	_
16	Inter	inter	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hotels	hotel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Business	Business	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Asem	Asem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Residence	Residence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Casino	Casino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	terminal	terminal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Olympics	Olympic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comprise** | present | Center Complex | COEX mall and congress center and Business tower and Residence hotel |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mall=Pivot |
| 2 | **establish** | past · passive |  | Casino and City |  | 1988 | time | airport terminal *nsubj:pass* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Seoul/229/)
- next →: [sentence 231](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Seoul/231/)
- ↑ back to [Seoul](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Seoul/)

