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title: There are nine major subway lines stretching for more than 250 km, w… — Seoul · tree and pragmatics
description: There are nine major subway lines stretching for more than 250 km, with one additional line planned. as of 2010, 25% of the population has a commute time of an hour or longer. Who acts: nine major subway lines. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seoul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seoul, sentence 285

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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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There are nine major subway lines stretching for more than 250 km, with one additional line planned. as of 2010, 25% of the population has a commute time of an hour or longer.

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**Who acts:** nine major subway lines · **What happens:** be, stretch, plan, have · **To what, where:** one additional line

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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 (nine major subway lines), 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:285
# text = There are nine major subway lines stretching for more than 250 km, with one additional line planned. as of 2010, 25% of the population has a commute time of an hour or longer.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	subway	subway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
7	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	11	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	250	250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
18	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	commute	commute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | nine major subway lines |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stretch** | gerund | nine major subway lines *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for 250 km | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **plan** | participle |  | one additional line *not said here* |  |  |  | as 2010 | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as 2010=Attribute |
| 4 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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