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title: Urban and civil planning was a key concept when Seoul was first desi… — Seoul · tree and pragmatics
description: Urban and civil planning was a key concept when Seoul was first designed to serve as a capital in the late 14th century. Who acts: Urban planning. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seoul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seoul, sentence 246

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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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Urban and civil planning was a key concept when Seoul was first designed to serve as a capital in the late 14th century.

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**Who acts:** Urban planning · **What happens:** be, design, serve · **To what, where:** key concept, Seoul

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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 (Urban planning), 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:246
# text = Urban and civil planning was a key concept when Seoul was first designed to serve as a capital in the late 14th century.
1	Urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	concept	concept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
13	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	14th	14th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Urban planning | a key concept |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **design** | past · passive |  | Seoul |  |  |  | first *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **serve** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | century | as a capital | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as capital=Attribute |

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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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