--- title: A strong investment in education, a militant drive to achieve academ… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics description: A strong investment in education, a militant drive to achieve academic success, as well as the passion for scholarly excellence has helped the resource-poor country rapidly grow its economy over the past 60 years from a war-torn land to a prosperous, developed country. Who acts: strong investment. 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A strong investment in education, a militant drive to achieve academic success, as well as the passion for scholarly excellence has helped the resource-poor country rapidly grow its economy over the past 60 years from a war-torn land to a prosperous, developed country. **Who acts:** strong investment · **What happens:** achieve, help, grow, tear, develop · **To what, where:** academic success, poor country, economy, torn land 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 (strong investment), 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:466 # text = A strong investment in education, a militant drive to achieve academic success, as well as the passion for scholarly excellence has helped the resource-poor country rapidly grow its economy over the past 60 years from a war-torn land to a prosperous, developed country. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 investment investment NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 education education NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 militant militant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 drive drive NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 achieve achieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 academic academic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 success success NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 19 cc _ _ 16 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 fixed _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 passion passion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 scholarly scholarly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 excellence excellence NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 resource resource NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 30 rapidly rapidly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 economy economy NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 over over ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 41 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 torn tear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ _ 44 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 47 prosperous prosperous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 49 developed develop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 amod _ _ 50 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **achieve** | to-infinitive | a strong investment in education and a militant drive as the passion for scholarly excellence *not said here* | academic success | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Eventuality | | 2 | **help** | present · perfect | a strong investment in education and a militant drive as the passion for scholarly excellence | the poor country | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Beneficiary | | 3 | **grow** | present | | country's economy | | a torn land to a developed country | year | rapidly *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent economy=Product from land=Material | | 4 | **tear** | participle | | | | | | war *compound* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **develop** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 465](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Korea/465/) - next →: [sentence 467](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Korea/467/) - ↑ back to [South Korea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Korea/)