Dublin, sentence 166
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 base of the monument is lit, and its top is illuminated to serve as a beacon in the night sky across the city.
What happens: lit, illuminate, serve · To what, where: base, top, city
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: 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 | 2 base | det |
| 2 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 monument | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 monument | det |
| 5 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 base | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lit | aux:pass |
| 7 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 illuminated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 illuminated | cc |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 top | nmod:poss |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 illuminated | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 illuminated | aux:pass |
| 13 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lit | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 serve | mark |
| 15 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 illuminated | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 beacon | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 beacon | det |
| 18 | beacon | beacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 serve | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sky | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sky | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sky | compound |
| 22 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beacon | nmod |
| 23 | across | across | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 serve | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit | present · passive | the base of the monument | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | illuminate | present · passive | base's top | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | serve | to-infinitive | the city | as a beacon in the night sky | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as beacon=Attribute |
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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