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title: St Patrick's Day, 17 March, is Ireland's national day, honouring its… — Holidays of the region · tree and pragmatics
description: St Patrick's Day, 17 March, is Ireland's national day, honouring its patron saint (the saint believed to look after the country) with parades and green clothes. Who acts: St Patrick, patron saint. A sentence of the lesson «Holidays of the region» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Holidays of the region, sentence 10

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St Patrick's Day, 17 March, is Ireland's national day, honouring its patron saint (the saint believed to look after the country) with parades and green clothes.

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**Who acts:** St Patrick, patron saint · **What happens:** be, honour, believe, look · **To what, where:** national day, saint

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Holidays of the region» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (St Patrick, patron saint), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:10
# text = St Patrick's Day, 17 March, is Ireland's national day, honouring its patron saint (the saint believed to look after the country) with parades and green clothes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
7	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	honouring	honour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	patron	patron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	parades	parade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	30	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | St Patrick | Ireland's national day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **honour** | gerund | adult's patron saint *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **believe** | participle · passive | adult's patron saint *not said here* | the saint |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | adult's patron saint *not said here* |  |  |  | after the country | with parades and green clothes | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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