Dublin, sentence 138
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.
Based on satellite observations, Met Éireann estimates that Dublin's coastal areas typically receive over 1,600 hours of sunshine per year, with the climate getting progressively duller inland.
Who acts: Met, coastal areas, climate · What happens: base, estimate, receive, get · To what, where: satellite observations
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 (Met, coastal areas, climate), 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 | Based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 estimates | mark |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 observations | case |
| 3 | satellite | satellite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 observations | compound |
| 4 | observations | observation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 estimates | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Met | punct |
| 6 | Met | Met | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 estimates | nsubj |
| 7 | Éireann | Éireann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Met | flat |
| 8 | estimates | estimate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 receive | mark |
| 10 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 areas | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Dublin | case |
| 12 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 areas | amod |
| 13 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 receive | nsubj |
| 14 | typically | typically | ADV | _ | 15 receive | advmod |
| 15 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 estimates | advcl |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 1,600 | advmod |
| 17 | 1,600 | 1,600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 hours | nummod |
| 18 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 receive | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sunshine | case |
| 20 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hours | nmod |
| 21 | per | per | ADP | _ | 22 year | case |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sunshine | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 climate | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 climate | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 climate | det |
| 26 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 receive | parataxis |
| 27 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 climate | acl |
| 28 | progressively | progressively | ADV | _ | 29 duller | advmod |
| 29 | duller | dull | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 getting | xcomp |
| 30 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 27 getting | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 estimates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | estimate | present | Met | satellite observations | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | receive | present | Dublin's coastal areas | hour | the climate parataxis; typically property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | get | gerund | the climate not said here | dull, inland property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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