Dublin, sentence 2
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.
Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, part of the Wicklow Mountains range.
Who acts: Liffey, Dublin Mountains · What happens: situate, be, border · To what, where: Dublin Bay, province, south
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 (Liffey, Dublin Mountains), 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 | Situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 Bay | case |
| 3 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bay | compound |
| 4 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Situated | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 mouth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mouth | det |
| 7 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Situated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Liffey | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Liffey | det |
| 10 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Liffey | compound |
| 11 | Liffey | Liffey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mouth | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 province | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 province | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 province | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 province | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 province | det |
| 17 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Liffey | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Leinster | case |
| 19 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 province | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bordered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bordered | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bordered | aux:pass |
| 23 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Situated | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 south | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 south | det |
| 26 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bordered | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 Mountains | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Mountains | det |
| 29 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Mountains | compound |
| 30 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 bordered | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 part | punct |
| 32 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Mountains | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 range | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 range | det |
| 35 | Wicklow | Wicklow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Mountains | compound |
| 36 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 37 range | compound |
| 37 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 part | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Situated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | situate | participle | Dublin Bay | at the mouth of the River Liffey | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bay=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Liffey | the province | of Leinster | tree rules | |||
| 3 | border | present · passive | the Dublin Mountains | the south | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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