Ireland, sentence 95
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.
In 1166, Mac Murrough had fled to Anjou, France, following a war involving Tighearnán Ua Ruairc, of Breifne, and sought the assistance of the Angevin King Henry II, in recapturing his kingdom.
Who acts: Mac, war · What happens: flee, follow, involve, seek, recapture, assist · To what, where: Anjou, 1166, war, Tighearnán, assistance, kingdom
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 (Mac, war), 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 1166 | case |
| 2 | 1166 | 1166 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 fled | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1166 | punct |
| 4 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fled | nsubj |
| 5 | Murrough | Murrough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mac | flat |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fled | aux |
| 7 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Anjou | case |
| 9 | Anjou | Anjou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 France | punct |
| 11 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Anjou | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 following | punct |
| 13 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fled | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 war | det |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 following | obj |
| 16 | involving | involve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 war | acl |
| 17 | Tighearnán | Tighearnán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 involving | obj |
| 18 | Ua | Ua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tighearnán | flat |
| 19 | Ruairc | Ruairc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tighearnán | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Breifne | punct |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Breifne | case |
| 22 | Breifne | Breifne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 involving | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sought | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sought | cc |
| 25 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fled | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 assistance | det |
| 27 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sought | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Henry | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Henry | det |
| 30 | Angevin | Angevin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 King | compound |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Henry | nmod:desc |
| 32 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 assistance | nmod |
| 33 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 32 Henry | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 recapturing | punct |
| 35 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 36 recapturing | mark |
| 36 | recapturing | recapture | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 sought | advcl |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 38 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 recapturing | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past · perfect | Mac | Anjou France | 1166 | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to anjou=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | Mac not said here | a war | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Theme | ||||
| 3 | involve | gerund | a war not said here | Tighearnán | of Breifne | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tighearnán=Theme | |||
| 4 | seek | past | Mac not said here | the assistance of the Henry Angevin King | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme | ||||
| 5 | recapture | gerund | Mac not said here | Mac's kingdom | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 6 | assist | the Henry Angevin King | nom assistance «act transitive»: of=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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