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title: For example, the Seoul Electric Company, Seoul Electric Trolley Comp… — Seoul · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, the Seoul Electric Company, Seoul Electric Trolley Company, and Seoul Fresh Spring Water Company were all joint Korean–U.S. owned enterprises. Who acts: Seoul Electric Company, U.S.. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seoul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seoul, sentence 77

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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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For example, the Seoul Electric Company, Seoul Electric Trolley Company, and Seoul Fresh Spring Water Company were all joint Korean–U.S. owned enterprises.

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**Who acts:** Seoul Electric Company, U.S. · **What happens:** be, own · **To what, where:** enterprises

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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 (Seoul Electric Company, U.S.), 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:77
# text = For example, the Seoul Electric Company, Seoul Electric Trolley Company, and Seoul Fresh Spring Water Company were all joint Korean–U.S. owned enterprises.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Electric	Electric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	Electric	Electric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Trolley	Trolley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Fresh	Fresh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Spring	Spring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
22	joint	joint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	enterprises	enterprise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Seoul Electric Company and Seoul Trolley Company and Spring Water Company |  |  |  |  | for example; korean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **own** | past | U.S. | enterprises |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot enterprise=Theme |

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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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