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title: These winds can affect Dublin, but because of its easterly location,… — Dublin · tree and pragmatics
description: These winds can affect Dublin, but because of its easterly location, it is the least affected part of the country. Who acts: winds, snow. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dublin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dublin, sentence 135

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From Wikipedia, [«Dublin»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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These winds can affect Dublin, but because of its easterly location, it is the least affected part of the country.

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**Who acts:** winds, snow · **What happens:** affect, be · **To what, where:** Dublin, affected part

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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 (winds, snow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Dublin:135
# text = These winds can affect Dublin, but because of its easterly location, it is the least affected part of the country.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	affect	affect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
8	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	easterly	easterly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | can | this winds | Dublin |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dublin=Experiencer |
| 2 | **affect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | least *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | snow | the affected part |  |  |  | because snow's easterly location; of the country | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Dublin», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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