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title: The transition of Korea from autocracy to modern democracy was marke… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: The transition of Korea from autocracy to modern democracy was marked in 1997 by the election of Kim Dae-jung, who was sworn in as the eighth president of South Korea on February 25, 1998. Who acts: election, Korea. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Korea, sentence 142

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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 transition of Korea from autocracy to modern democracy was marked in 1997 by the election of Kim Dae-jung, who was sworn in as the eighth president of South Korea on February 25, 1998.

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**Who acts:** election, Korea · **What happens:** mark, swear, transition, elect · **To what, where:** transition, 1997, jung, eighth president, autocracy, Kim

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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 (election, Korea), 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:142
# text = The transition of Korea from autocracy to modern democracy was marked in 1997 by the election of Kim Dae-jung, who was sworn in as the eighth president of South Korea on February 25, 1998.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	transition	transition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	autocracy	autocracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1997	1997	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Kim	Kim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Dae	Dae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	jung	jung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:unmarked	_	_
36	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past · passive | the election of Kim | the transition of Korea from autocracy to modern democracy |  | 1997 |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1997=Destination |
| 2 | **swear** | past · passive |  | jung |  | the eighth president of South Korea |  | on 25  February  1998 | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **transition** |  | Korea |  |  | autocracy to modern democracy |  |  | nom transition «act intransitive»: of=agent from=place |
| 4 | **elect** |  |  | Kim |  |  |  |  | nom election «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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