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title: Despite the coexistence of the spellings Corea and Korea in 19th-cen… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite the coexistence of the spellings Corea and Korea in 19th-century publications, some Koreans believe that Imperial Japan intentionally standardized the spelling of Korea in order to make Japan appear first alphabetically during occupation. Who acts: Koreans, Imperial, Japan, spellings. A sent
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# South Korea, sentence 32

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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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Despite the coexistence of the spellings Corea and Korea in 19th-century publications, some Koreans believe that Imperial Japan intentionally standardized the spelling of Korea in order to make Japan appear first alphabetically during occupation.

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**Who acts:** Koreans, Imperial, Japan, spellings · **What happens:** believe, standardize, make, appear, coexist, spell · **To what, where:** spelling, order, Japan, Korea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Koreans, Imperial, Japan, spellings), 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:32
# text = Despite the coexistence of the spellings Corea and Korea in 19th-century publications, some Koreans believe that Imperial Japan intentionally standardized the spelling of Korea in order to make Japan appear first alphabetically during occupation.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	coexistence	coexistence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spellings	spelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	Corea	Corea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	publications	publication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	Koreans	Korean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	Imperial	Imperial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	intentionally	intentionally	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	standardized	standardize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
32	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	advmod	_	_
35	alphabetically	alphabetically	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	during	during	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | some Koreans |  |  |  |  | despite the coexistence of the spellings | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **standardize** | past | Imperial | the spelling of Korea |  | order |  | intentionally *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Imperial *not said here* | Japan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **appear** | infinitive | Japan *not said here* |  |  |  | during occupation | alphabetically *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **coexist** |  | the spellings |  |  |  |  |  | nom coexistence «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **spell** |  |  | Korea |  |  |  |  | nom spelling «communication 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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