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title: On 18 January 2005, the Seoul Metropolitan Government changed Seoul'… — Seoul · tree and pragmatics
description: On 18 January 2005, the Seoul Metropolitan Government changed Seoul's official Chinese name from the historic *Hànchéng *to *Shǒu'ěr *('). Who acts: Metropolitan Government, Seoul. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seoul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seoul, sentence 32

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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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On 18 January 2005, the Seoul Metropolitan Government changed Seoul's official Chinese name from the historic \*Hànchéng \*to \*Shǒu'ěr \*(').

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**Who acts:** Metropolitan Government, Seoul · **What happens:** change, name · **To what, where:** official Chinese name, 18

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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 (Metropolitan Government, Seoul), 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:32
# text = On 18 January 2005, the Seoul Metropolitan Government changed Seoul's official Chinese name from the historic *Hànchéng *to *Shǒu'ěr *(').
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
3	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Metropolitan	Metropolitan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Hànchéng	Hànchéng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Shǒu'ěr	Shǒu'ěr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | the Metropolitan Government | Seoul's official Chinese name |  | 18  January  2005 |  | from the historic Hànchéng | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent name=Patient from hànchéng=Initial\_State |
| 2 | **name** |  | Seoul |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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