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title: In 1988, South Korea hosted the Summer Olympics in Seoul, coming fou… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1988, South Korea hosted the Summer Olympics in Seoul, coming fourth with 12 gold medals, 10 silver medals, and 11 bronze medals. Who acts: South. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Korea, sentence 579

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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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In 1988, South Korea hosted the Summer Olympics in Seoul, coming fourth with 12 gold medals, 10 silver medals, and 11 bronze medals.

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**Who acts:** South · **What happens:** host, come · **To what, where:** Summer Olympics, 1988

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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 (South), 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:579
# text = In 1988, South Korea hosted the Summer Olympics in Seoul, coming fourth with 12 gold medals, 10 silver medals, and 11 bronze medals.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	hosted	host	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Olympics	Olympic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	fourth	fourth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	medals	medal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	medals	medal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	medals	medal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **host** | past | South |  | the Summer Olympics | 1988 |  | in Seoul | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olympic=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | South *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with 12 gold medals and 10 silver medals and 11 bronze medals; fourth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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