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title: Based on satellite observations, Met Éireann estimates that Dublin's… — Dublin · tree and pragmatics
description: Based on satellite observations, Met Éireann estimates that Dublin's coastal areas typically receive over 1,600 hours of sunshine per year, with the climate getting progressively duller inland. Who acts: Met, coastal areas, climate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dublin» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Dublin, sentence 138

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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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Based on satellite observations, Met Éireann estimates that Dublin's coastal areas typically receive over 1,600 hours of sunshine per year, with the climate getting progressively duller inland.

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**Who acts:** Met, coastal areas, climate · **What happens:** base, estimate, receive, get · **To what, where:** satellite observations

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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 (Met, coastal areas, climate), 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:138
# text = Based on satellite observations, Met Éireann estimates that Dublin's coastal areas typically receive over 1,600 hours of sunshine per year, with the climate getting progressively duller inland.
1	Based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	mark	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	satellite	satellite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	observations	observation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Met	Met	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Éireann	Éireann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	estimates	estimate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	typically	typically	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	receive	receive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	over	over	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	1,600	1,600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	per	per	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
27	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	progressively	progressively	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	duller	dull	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	xcomp	_	_
30	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **estimate** | present | Met |  |  | satellite observations |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **receive** | present | Dublin's coastal areas |  |  |  | hour | the climate *parataxis*; typically *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | the climate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dull, inland *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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