Dublin, sentence 56
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.
Determined to make Dublin a Protestant city, Queen Elizabeth I established Trinity College in 1592 as a solely Protestant university and ordered that the Catholic St. Patrick's and Christ Church cathedrals be converted to the Protestant church.
Who acts: Determined, Elizabeth · What happens: make, establish, order, convert · To what, where: Protestant city, Dublin, Trinity College, 1592, Catholic Patrick
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 (Determined, Elizabeth), 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 | Determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 make | mark |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 6 | Protestant | protestant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 city | amod |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Elizabeth | punct |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Elizabeth | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Elizabeth | Elizabeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 established | nsubj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 established | nsubj |
| 12 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | parataxis |
| 13 | Trinity | Trinity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 College | compound |
| 14 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 established | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1592 | case |
| 16 | 1592 | 1592 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 established | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 university | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 university | det |
| 19 | solely | solely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 university | amod |
| 20 | Protestant | protestant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 university | amod |
| 21 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 established | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ordered | cc |
| 23 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 established | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 converted | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Patrick | det |
| 26 | Catholic | Catholic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Patrick | compound |
| 27 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Patrick | nmod:desc |
| 28 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 converted | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Patrick | case |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Church | cc |
| 31 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Church | compound |
| 32 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Patrick | conj |
| 33 | cathedrals | cathedral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 converted | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 converted | aux:pass |
| 35 | converted | convert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 ordered | ccomp |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 church | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 church | det |
| 38 | Protestant | protestant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 church | amod |
| 39 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 converted | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | Determined | a Protestant city | Dublin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset dublin=Beneficiary city=Product | |||
| 2 | establish | past | Elizabeth Queen | Trinity College | 1592 | as a solely Protestant university; I nsubj | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent college=Patient | ||
| 3 | order | past | Elizabeth Queen not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | convert | infinitive · passive | the Catholic Patrick St. and Christ Church | to the Protestant church result; cathedrals nsubj:pass | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to church=Result |
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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