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title: Competitive video gaming, better known as esports, has become more p… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: Competitive video gaming, better known as esports, has become more popular in South Korea in recent years, particularly among young people. Who acts: Competitive video gaming. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Korea, sentence 592

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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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Competitive video gaming, better known as esports, has become more popular in South Korea in recent years, particularly among young people.

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**Who acts:** Competitive video gaming · **What happens:** know, become · **To what, where:** Competitive video gaming

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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 (Competitive video gaming), 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:592
# text = Competitive video gaming, better known as esports, has become more popular in South Korea in recent years, particularly among young people.
1	Competitive	competitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gaming	gaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	esports	esport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | Competitive video gaming *not said here* |  |  |  | as esports; well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as esport=Attribute |
| 2 | **become** | present · perfect | Competitive video gaming |  |  |  | year | young people *conj*; popular *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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