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title: Silla was the smallest and weakest of the three, but used opportunis… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: Silla was the smallest and weakest of the three, but used opportunistic pacts and alliances with the more powerful Korean kingdoms, and eventually Tang China, to its advantage. Who acts: Silla. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Korea, sentence 58

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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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Silla was the smallest and weakest of the three, but used opportunistic pacts and alliances with the more powerful Korean kingdoms, and eventually Tang China, to its advantage.

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**Who acts:** Silla · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** opportunistic pacts

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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 (Silla), 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:58
# text = Silla was the smallest and weakest of the three, but used opportunistic pacts and alliances with the more powerful Korean kingdoms, and eventually Tang China, to its advantage.
1	Silla	Silla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	weakest	weak	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	opportunistic	opportunistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pacts	pact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	alliances	alliance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	Tang	Tang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Silla |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Silla *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the three | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | past | Silla *not said here* | opportunistic pacts and alliances |  |  |  | with the powerful Korean kingdoms; to kingdom's advantage; Tang China *obl* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pact=Patient |

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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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