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title: The executive and legislative branches operate primarily at the nati… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: The executive and legislative branches operate primarily at the national level, although various ministries in the executive branch also carry out local functions. Who acts: executive branches, various ministries. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Korea, sentence 206

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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 executive and legislative branches operate primarily at the national level, although various ministries in the executive branch also carry out local functions.

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**Who acts:** executive branches, various ministries · **What happens:** operate, carry out · **To what, where:** national level, local functions

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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 (executive branches, various ministries), 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:206
# text = The executive and legislative branches operate primarily at the national level, although various ministries in the executive branch also carry out local functions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	operate	operate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
14	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ministries	ministry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	functions	function	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **operate** | present | the executive branches |  |  | the national level |  | primarily *property* | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry out** | present | various ministries in the executive branch | local functions |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent function=Eventuality |

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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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