--- title: Today, The World Factbook describes South Korea's democracy as a "fu… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics description: Today, The World Factbook describes South Korea's democracy as a "fully functioning modern democracy", while The Economist Democracy Index classifies it as a "flawed democracy", ranking at 32nd out of 167 countries in 2024. Who acts: World Factbook, Democracy Index. 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Today, The World Factbook describes South Korea's democracy as a "fully functioning modern democracy", while The Economist Democracy Index classifies it as a "flawed democracy", ranking at 32nd out of 167 countries in 2024. **Who acts:** World Factbook, Democracy Index · **What happens:** describe, classify, flaw, rank · **To what, where:** democracy, Factbook, 32nd 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 (World Factbook, Democracy Index), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:216 # text = Today, The World Factbook describes South Korea's democracy as a "fully functioning modern democracy", while The Economist Democracy Index classifies it as a "flawed democracy", ranking at 32nd out of 167 countries in 2024. 1 Today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Factbook Factbook PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Korea Korea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 democracy democracy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 fully fully ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 functioning functioning ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 democracy democracy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 Economist Economist PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Democracy Democracy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Index index NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 classifies classify VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 flawed flaw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 democracy democracy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 ranking rank VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 32nd 32nd NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 34 obl _ _ 37 out out ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 167 167 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | present | the World Factbook | South Korea's democracy | | | today | a functioning modern democracy *xcomp* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent democracy=Theme | | 2 | **classify** | present | the Democracy Index | Factbook | | | | as a flawed democracy | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as democracy=Attribute | | 3 | **flaw** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **rank** | gerund | the Democracy Index *not said here* | | | 32nd | | out 167 countries; in 2024 | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Korea/215/) - next →: [sentence 217](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Korea/217/) - ↑ back to [South Korea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Korea/)