Ireland, sentence 16
From Wikipedia, «Ireland», 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.
However, English rule did not extend over the whole island until the 16th–17th century Tudor conquest, which led to colonisation by settlers from Britain.
Who acts: English rule, century Tudor conquest · What happens: not extend, lead · To what, where: whole island
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ireland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (English rule, century Tudor conquest), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 extend | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rule | amod |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extend | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 extend | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 extend | advmod |
| 7 | extend | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 island | amod |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extend | obl |
| 12 | until | until | ADP | _ | 19 conquest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 16th | det |
| 14 | 16th | 16th | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 conquest | nsubj |
| 15 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 century | punct |
| 16 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 17 century | amod |
| 17 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 conquest | compound |
| 18 | Tudor | Tudor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 conquest | compound |
| 19 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extend | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 led | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 led | nsubj |
| 22 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 conquest | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 colonisation | case |
| 24 | colonisation | colonisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 led | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 settlers | case |
| 26 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 led | obl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 Britain | case |
| 28 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 settlers | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 extend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not extend | past · do-support | English rule | the whole island | until century Tudor conquest the 16th | however property | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over island=Path | ||
| 2 | lead | past | century Tudor conquest the 16th | to colonisation; by settlers from Britain | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to colonisation=Patient |
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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