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title: Around 1,500 B.C., communities began transitioning into the Bronze A… — Seoul · tree and pragmatics
description: Around 1,500 B.C., communities began transitioning into the Bronze Age and farming at scale. Who acts: B.C. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seoul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seoul, sentence 37

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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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Around 1,500 B.C., communities began transitioning into the Bronze Age and farming at scale.

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**Who acts:** B.C · **What happens:** begin, transition · **To what, where:** 1,500, Bronze Age

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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 (B.C), 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:37
# text = Around 1,500 B.C., communities began transitioning into the Bronze Age and farming at scale.
1	Around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	1,500	1,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	B.C	B.C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	transitioning	transition	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Bronze	Bronze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	farming	farming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | B.C and communities | 1,500 |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **transition** | gerund | B.C and communities *not said here* |  |  |  | into the Bronze Age and farming | at scale | tree rules |

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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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