Dublin, sentence 53
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 1348, the Black Death, a lethal plague which had ravaged Europe, took hold in Dublin and killed thousands over the following decade.
Who acts: Black Death · What happens: ravage, take, hold, kill, follow · To what, where: lethal plague, 1348, Dublin, thousands
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 (Black Death), 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 1348 | case |
| 2 | 1348 | 1348 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 took | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1348 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Death | det |
| 5 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Death | amod |
| 6 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plague | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 plague | det |
| 9 | lethal | lethal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plague | amod |
| 10 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Death | appos |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 ravaged | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ravaged | aux |
| 13 | ravaged | ravage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 plague | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ravaged | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Death | punct |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 took | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Dublin | case |
| 19 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 killed | cc |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 22 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 killed | obj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 decade | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 decade | det |
| 25 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 decade | amod |
| 26 | decade | decade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 killed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ravage | past · perfect · passive | a lethal plague | Europe obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the Black Death | 1348 | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | the Black Death not said here | Dublin | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dublin=Location | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | the Black Death not said here | thousands | decade | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | |||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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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