Dublin, sentence 154
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.
Starting in the late 2010s, there was a significant amount of high density residential developments in the suburbs of Dublin, with mid to high-rise apartments being built in Sandyford, Ashtown, and Tallaght.
Who acts: significant amount · What happens: start, be, build, amount · To what, where: late 2010s, mid, high density
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 (significant amount), 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 | Starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 was | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 2010s | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 2010s | det |
| 4 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 2010s | amod |
| 5 | 2010s | 2010 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 1 Starting | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Starting | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 amount | det |
| 10 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 amount | amod |
| 11 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 density | case |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 density | amod |
| 14 | density | density | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 amount | nmod |
| 15 | residential | residential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 developments | amod |
| 16 | developments | development | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 density | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 suburbs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 suburbs | det |
| 19 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 developments | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Dublin | case |
| 21 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 suburbs | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mid | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 mid | case |
| 24 | mid | mid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 developments | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 apartments | case |
| 26 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 rise | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 high | punct |
| 28 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 apartments | compound |
| 29 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 built | obl |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 built | aux:pass |
| 31 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 mid | acl:relcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Sandyford | case |
| 33 | Sandyford | Sandyford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 built | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Ashtown | punct |
| 35 | Ashtown | Ashtown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Sandyford | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Tallaght | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Tallaght | cc |
| 38 | Tallaght | Tallaght | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Sandyford | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | a significant amount of high density and residential developments in the suburbs of Dublin and mid not said here | the late 2010s | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a significant amount of high density and residential developments in the suburbs of Dublin and mid | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | gerund · passive | mid not said here | to rise apartments; in Sandyford and Ashtown and Tallaght | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: in sandyford=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | amount | high density and residential developments in the suburbs of Dublin and mid | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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