Dublin, sentence 420
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 1657, the English colonists in Dublin presented a petition to the Municipal Council complaining that in Dublin itself "there is Irish commonly and usually spoken".
Who acts: English colonists, Dublin · What happens: present, complain, be, speak · To what, where: petition, Municipal Council, 1657, Dublin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (English colonists, Dublin), 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 1657 | case |
| 2 | 1657 | 1657 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 presented | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1657 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 colonists | det |
| 5 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 colonists | amod |
| 6 | colonists | colonist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 presented | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Dublin | case |
| 8 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 colonists | nmod |
| 9 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 petition | det |
| 11 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 presented | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Council | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Council | det |
| 14 | Municipal | Municipal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Council | compound |
| 15 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 presented | obl |
| 16 | complaining | complain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 presented | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 Dublin | mark |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Dublin | case |
| 19 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 complaining | obl |
| 20 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 19 Dublin | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Dublin | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Dublin | acl:relcl |
| 24 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 commonly | amod |
| 25 | commonly | commonly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 is | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 spoken | cc |
| 27 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 28 spoken | advmod |
| 28 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 commonly | conj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 spoken | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | the English colonists in Dublin | a petition | the Municipal Council | 1657 | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent petition=Theme to council=Recipient | ||
| 2 | complain speech: other | gerund | the English colonists in Dublin not said here | Dublin petition | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | Dublin petition not said here | there | commonly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | participle | Dublin petition not said here | usually property | vn talk-37.5 «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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