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title: After World War II and the division of the Korean Peninsula, about f… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: After World War II and the division of the Korean Peninsula, about four million people from North Korea crossed the border to South Korea. Who acts: million people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Korea, sentence 410

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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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After World War II and the division of the Korean Peninsula, about four million people from North Korea crossed the border to South Korea.

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**Who acts:** million people · **What happens:** cross · **To what, where:** border, 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 (million people), 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:410
# text = After World War II and the division of the Korean Peninsula, about four million people from North Korea crossed the border to South Korea.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | million people from North Korea | the border | South Korea |  | after World War and the division of the Korean Peninsula |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent border=Patient to korea=Recipient |

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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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