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title: Recent polling indicates that a majority, 41% of South Korean sports… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: Recent polling indicates that a majority, 41% of South Korean sports fans continue to self-identify as football fans, with baseball ranked 2nd at 25% of respondents. Who acts: Recent polling, Korean sports fans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Korea, sentence 559

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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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Recent polling indicates that a majority, 41% of South Korean sports fans continue to self-identify as football fans, with baseball ranked 2nd at 25% of respondents.

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**Who acts:** Recent polling, Korean sports fans · **What happens:** indicate, continue, identify, rank · **To what, where:** majority

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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 (Recent polling, Korean sports fans), 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:559
# text = Recent polling indicates that a majority, 41% of South Korean sports fans continue to self-identify as football fans, with baseball ranked 2nd at 25% of respondents.
1	Recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	polling	polling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	indicates	indicate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	41	41	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
14	fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	continue	continue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	identify	identify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	baseball	baseball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	2nd	2nd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	19	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	respondents	respondent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indicate** | present | Recent polling | a majority |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot majority=Topic |
| 2 | **continue** | present | Korean sports fans |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **identify** | to-infinitive | Korean sports fans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as football fans; with baseball ranked 2nd; self *compound* | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with 2nd=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rank** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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