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title: The succeeding Korean Empire (1897–1910) sought modernization and re… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: The succeeding Korean Empire (1897–1910) sought modernization and reform but was annexed in 1910 into the Empire of Japan. Who acts: succeeding Korean Empire. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Korea, sentence 11

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From Wikipedia, [«South Korea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea), 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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The succeeding Korean Empire (1897–1910) sought modernization and reform but was annexed in 1910 into the Empire of Japan.

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**Who acts:** succeeding Korean Empire · **What happens:** succeed, seek, annex · **To what, where:** modernization, 1910

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Korea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (succeeding Korean Empire), 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:South_Korea:11
# text = The succeeding Korean Empire (1897–1910) sought modernization and reform but was annexed in 1910 into the Empire of Japan.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	succeeding	succeed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	1897	1897	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	1910	1910	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
10	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	modernization	modernization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	reform	reform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	annexed	annex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1910	1910	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seek** | past | the succeeding Korean Empire | modernization and reform |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent modernization=Theme |
| 3 | **annex** | past · passive | the succeeding Korean Empire *not said here* |  |  | 1910 |  | into the Empire of Japan | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP» |

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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, «South Korea», 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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