Dublin, sentence 17

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 Viking settlement of about 841, Dyflin, and a Gaelic settlement, Áth Cliath ("ford of hurdles") further up the river, at the present-day Father Mathew Bridge, also known as Dublin Bridge, at the bottom of Church Street.

What happens: know · To what, where: bottom, Viking settlement

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	3 settlement	det
2	Viking	viking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 settlement	compound
3	settlement	settlement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 841	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 841	advmod
6	841	841	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 settlement	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Dyflin	punct
8	Dyflin	Dyflin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 settlement	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 river	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 river	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 settlement	det
12	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 settlement	amod
13	settlement	settlement	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 river	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Áth	punct
15	Áth	Áth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 settlement	appos
16	Cliath	Cliath	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Áth	flat
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 ford	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 ford	punct
19	ford	ford	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Áth	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 hurdles	case
21	hurdles	hurdle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ford	nmod
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 ford	punct
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 ford	punct
24	further	further	ADV	_	27 river	advmod
25	up	up	ADP	_	27 river	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 river	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 settlement	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 day	punct
29	at	at	ADP	_	33 day	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 day	det
31	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 day	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 present	punct
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 river	conj
34	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 day	appos
35	Mathew	Mathew	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Father	flat
36	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Father	flat
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 known	punct
38	also	also	ADV	_	39 known	advmod
39	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 Father	conj
40	as	as	ADP	_	42 Bridge	case
41	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Bridge	compound
42	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 known	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 bottom	punct
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 bottom	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 bottom	det
46	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 known	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 Street	case
48	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Street	compound
49	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 bottom	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 settlement	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	participle				the bottom of Church Street		as Dublin Bridge	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as bridge=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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Dublin, sentence 17