Dublin, sentence 419
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.
In March 1656, a converted Catholic priest, Séamas Corcy, was appointed to preach in Irish at Bride's parish every Sunday, and was also ordered to preach at Drogheda and Athy.
What happens: appoint, preach, order · To what, where: Irish, Drogheda
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 March | case |
| 2 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 appointed | obl |
| 3 | 1656 | 1656 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 March | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 priest | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 priest | det |
| 6 | converted | converted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 priest | amod |
| 7 | Catholic | catholic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 priest | compound |
| 8 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 March | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Séamas | punct |
| 10 | Séamas | Séamas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 priest | appos |
| 11 | Corcy | Corcy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Séamas | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 March | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 appointed | aux:pass |
| 14 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 preach | mark |
| 16 | preach | preach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 appointed | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Irish | case |
| 18 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 preach | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 parish | case |
| 20 | Bride | Bride | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 parish | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Bride | case |
| 22 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 preach | obl |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 Sunday | det |
| 24 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 preach | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ordered | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ordered | cc |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 ordered | aux:pass |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 ordered | advmod |
| 29 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 appointed | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 preach | mark |
| 31 | preach | preach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 ordered | xcomp |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 Drogheda | case |
| 33 | Drogheda | Drogheda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 preach | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Athy | cc |
| 35 | Athy | Athy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Drogheda | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | march | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | preach speech: other | to-infinitive | Irish | sunday | at Bride's parish | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | order | past · passive | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | preach speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Drogheda and Athy | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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