--- title: In addition to contesting control of the Korean Peninsula, Goguryeo… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics description: In addition to contesting control of the Korean Peninsula, Goguryeo had many military conflicts with various Chinese dynasties, most notably the Goguryeo–Sui War, in which Goguryeo defeated a huge force said to number over a million men. Who acts: Goguryeo, huge force. 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In addition to contesting control of the Korean Peninsula, Goguryeo had many military conflicts with various Chinese dynasties, most notably the Goguryeo–Sui War, in which Goguryeo defeated a huge force said to number over a million men. **Who acts:** Goguryeo, huge force · **What happens:** contest, have, defeat, say · **To what, where:** control, many military conflicts, addition, Goguryeo · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Goguryeo, huge force), 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:54 # text = In addition to contesting control of the Korean Peninsula, Goguryeo had many military conflicts with various Chinese dynasties, most notably the Goguryeo–Sui War, in which Goguryeo defeated a huge force said to number over a million men. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 addition addition NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 3 to to SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 contesting contest VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Korean korean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Peninsula Peninsula PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 Goguryeo Goguryeo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 conflicts conflict NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 dynasties dynasty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 22 advmod _ _ 22 notably notably ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Goguryeo Goguryeo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 – – PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Sui Sui PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obl _ _ 31 Goguryeo Goguryeo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 defeated defeat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 ccomp _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 42 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contest** | gerund | Goguryeo *not said here* | control of the Korean Peninsula | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | Goguryeo | many military conflicts | | addition | | with various Chinese dynasties the Goguryeo Sui War | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conflict=Patient | | 3 | **defeat** | past | Goguryeo | | | the Goguryeo Sui War | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a huge force | | | | | number over million men *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Korea/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Korea/55/) - ↑ back to [South Korea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Korea/)