Dublin, sentence 111
From Wikipedia, «Dublin», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
It is bordered by the Dublin Mountains, a low mountain range and sub-range of the Wicklow Mountains, to the south, and surrounded by flat farmland to the north and west.
Who acts: Dublin Mountains · What happens: border, surround · To what, where: 345 km2
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dublin». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dublin Mountains), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bordered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bordered | aux:pass |
| 3 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Mountains | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mountains | det |
| 6 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mountains | compound |
| 7 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 bordered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 range | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 range | det |
| 10 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 range | amod |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 range | compound |
| 12 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Mountains | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sub-range | cc |
| 14 | sub-range | sub-range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 range | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Mountains | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mountains | det |
| 17 | Wicklow | Wicklow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mountains | compound |
| 18 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 range | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 south | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 south | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 south | det |
| 22 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bordered | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 surrounded | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 surrounded | cc |
| 25 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bordered | parataxis |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 farmland | case |
| 27 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 farmland | amod |
| 28 | farmland | farmland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 north | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 north | det |
| 31 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 farmland | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 west | cc |
| 33 | west | west | ADV | _ | 31 north | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | border | present · passive | the Dublin Mountains | 345 km2 = km2 | the south parataxis | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | surround | participle | flat farmland to the north obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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