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title: South Korea requested military support from the United States but wa… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: South Korea requested military support from the United States but was denied, while North Korea's military was heavily reinforced by the Soviet Union. Who acts: South Korea, Soviet Union. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Korea, sentence 111

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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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South Korea requested military support from the United States but was denied, while North Korea's military was heavily reinforced by the Soviet Union.

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**Who acts:** South Korea, Soviet Union · **What happens:** request, deny, reinforce · **To what, where:** military support, United States, military

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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 (South Korea, Soviet Union), 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:111
# text = South Korea requested military support from the United States but was denied, while North Korea's military was heavily reinforced by the Soviet Union.
1	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	requested	request	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	denied	deny	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	reinforced	reinforce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **request** | past | South Korea | military support |  | the United States |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent support=Recipient |
| 2 | **deny** | past · passive | South Korea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S» |
| 3 | **reinforce** | past · passive | the Soviet Union | North Korea's military |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=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, «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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