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title: South Korea endured a series of dictatorships punctuated by coups, r… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: South Korea endured a series of dictatorships punctuated by coups, revolutions, and violent uprisings, but also experienced a soaring economy and one of the fastest rises in average GDP per capita, leading to its emergence as one of the Four Asian Tigers. Who acts: South Korea, economy. A sentence o
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# South Korea, sentence 16

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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 endured a series of dictatorships punctuated by coups, revolutions, and violent uprisings, but also experienced a soaring economy and one of the fastest rises in average GDP per capita, leading to its emergence as one of the Four Asian Tigers.

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**Who acts:** South Korea, economy · **What happens:** endure, punctuate, experience, soar, lead, emerge · **To what, where:** series, dictatorships, soaring economy

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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, economy), 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:16
# text = South Korea endured a series of dictatorships punctuated by coups, revolutions, and violent uprisings, but also experienced a soaring economy and one of the fastest rises in average GDP per capita, leading to its emergence as one of the Four Asian Tigers.
1	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	endured	endure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dictatorships	dictatorship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	punctuated	punctuate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	coups	coup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	revolutions	revolution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	uprisings	uprising	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	experienced	experience	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	soaring	soar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	rises	rise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	GDP	gdp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	per	per	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	capita	capita	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	emergence	emergence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
45	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	Tigers	Tiger	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endure** | past | South Korea | a series of dictatorships |  |  |  | violent uprisings *obl* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme series=Circumstance |
| 2 | **punctuate** | participle |  | dictatorships *not said here* |  |  |  | by coups and revolutions | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **experience** | past | South Korea *not said here* | a soaring economy |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer economy=Stimulus |
| 4 | **soar** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **lead** | gerund | South Korea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to economy's emergence; as one of the Four Asian Tigers | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to emergence=Patient |
| 6 | **emerge** |  | economy |  |  |  |  |  | nom emergence «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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