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title: A close relationship with the United States began directly after Wor… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: A close relationship with the United States began directly after World War II, when the United States temporarily administered South Korea. Who acts: close relationship, United States. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Korea, sentence 253

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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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A close relationship with the United States began directly after World War II, when the United States temporarily administered South Korea.

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**Who acts:** close relationship, United States · **What happens:** begin, administer · **To what, where:** South Korea

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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 (close relationship, United States), 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:253
# text = A close relationship with the United States began directly after World War II, when the United States temporarily administered South Korea.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	temporarily	temporarily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	administered	administer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | a close relationship with the United States |  |  |  | after World War | directly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **administer** | past | the United States | South Korea |  |  |  | temporarily *property* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent korea=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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