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title: The historic city centre of Dublin is encircled by the Royal Canal a… — Dublin · tree and pragmatics
description: The historic city centre of Dublin is encircled by the Royal Canal and Grand Canal, bounded to the west by Heuston railway station and Phoenix Park, and to the east by the IFSC and the Docklands. Who acts: Royal Canal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dublin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dublin, sentence 148

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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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The historic city centre of Dublin is encircled by the Royal Canal and Grand Canal, bounded to the west by Heuston railway station and Phoenix Park, and to the east by the IFSC and the Docklands.

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**Who acts:** Royal Canal · **What happens:** encircle, bound · **To what, where:** historic city centre, west

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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 (Royal Canal), 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:148
# text = The historic city centre of Dublin is encircled by the Royal Canal and Grand Canal, bounded to the west by Heuston railway station and Phoenix Park, and to the east by the IFSC and the Docklands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	encircled	encircle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Royal	Royal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Grand	Grand	PROPN	NNP	_	15	compound	_	_
15	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Heuston	Heuston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	Park	Park	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	IFSC	IFSC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Docklands	Dockland	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encircle** | present · passive | the Royal Canal and Grand Canal | the historic city centre of Dublin |  |  |  | the east by the IFSC and the Docklands *conj* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **bound** | participle | the Royal Canal and Grand Canal *not said here* |  |  | the west |  | by Heuston railway station and Phoenix | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to west=Destination |

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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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