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title: People of the upper classes built bigger houses with elegantly curve… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: People of the upper classes built bigger houses with elegantly curved tiled roofs and lifting eaves. Who acts: People. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Korea, sentence 497

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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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People of the upper classes built bigger houses with elegantly curved tiled roofs and lifting eaves.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** build, curve, tile, lift · **To what, where:** bigger houses

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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 (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:497
# text = People of the upper classes built bigger houses with elegantly curved tiled roofs and lifting eaves.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	elegantly	elegantly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	curved	curve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	tiled	tile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	eaves	eave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | People of the upper classes | bigger houses |  |  |  | with curved tiled roofs and lifting eaves | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent house=Theme with roof=Source |
| 2 | **curve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | elegantly *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
| 3 | **tile** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lift** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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