Dublin, sentence 148
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.
The historic city centre of Dublin is encircled by the Royal Canal and Grand Canal, bounded to the west by Heuston railway station and Phoenix Park, and to the east by the IFSC and the Docklands.
Who acts: Royal Canal · What happens: encircle, bound · To what, where: historic city centre, west
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 (Royal Canal), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 centre | det |
| 2 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 centre | amod |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 centre | compound |
| 4 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 encircled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Dublin | case |
| 6 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 centre | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 encircled | aux:pass |
| 8 | encircled | encircle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Canal | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Canal | det |
| 11 | Royal | Royal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Canal | compound |
| 12 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 encircled | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Canal | cc |
| 14 | Grand | Grand | PROPN | _ | 15 Canal | compound |
| 15 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Canal | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bounded | punct |
| 17 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 encircled | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 west | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 west | det |
| 20 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bounded | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 station | case |
| 22 | Heuston | Heuston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 station | compound |
| 23 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 station | compound |
| 24 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bounded | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Phoenix | cc |
| 26 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 station | conj |
| 27 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Phoenix | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 east | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 east | cc |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 east | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 east | det |
| 32 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 encircled | conj |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 IFSC | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 IFSC | det |
| 35 | IFSC | IFSC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 east | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Docklands | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Docklands | det |
| 38 | Docklands | Dockland | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 IFSC | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 encircled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encircle | present · passive | the Royal Canal and Grand Canal | the historic city centre of Dublin | the east by the IFSC and the Docklands conj | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | bound | participle | the Royal Canal and Grand Canal not said here | the west | by Heuston railway station and Phoenix | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to west=Destination |
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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