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title: Seoul's status as a municipal corporation mirrored the independent c… — Seoul · tree and pragmatics
description: Seoul's status as a municipal corporation mirrored the independent cities in the United States that do not belong to any county, and Seoul was established as an independent administrative unit, separate from the existing provinces. Who acts: status, independent cities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seo
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# Seoul, sentence 91

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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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Seoul's status as a municipal corporation mirrored the independent cities in the United States that do not belong to any county, and Seoul was established as an independent administrative unit, separate from the existing provinces.

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**Who acts:** status, independent cities · **What happens:** mirror, not belong, establish, separate, exist · **To what, where:** independent cities, United States, 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 (status, independent cities), 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:91
# text = Seoul's status as a municipal corporation mirrored the independent cities in the United States that do not belong to any county, and Seoul was established as an independent administrative unit, separate from the existing provinces.
1	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	corporation	corporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	mirrored	mirror	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	county	county	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	separate	separate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	amod	_	_
38	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mirror** | past | Seoul's status as a municipal corporation | the independent cities |  | the United States |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **belong** | present · do-support | the independent cities |  |  |  |  | to any county | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **establish** | past · passive |  | Seoul |  |  |  | as a independent administrative unit | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **separate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | from the existing provinces | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from province=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **exist** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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