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title: Starting in the late 2010s, there was a significant amount of high d… — Dublin · tree and pragmatics
description: Starting in the late 2010s, there was a significant amount of high density residential developments in the suburbs of Dublin, with mid to high-rise apartments being built in Sandyford, Ashtown, and Tallaght. Who acts: significant amount. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dublin» with its dependency tree an
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# Dublin, sentence 154

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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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Starting in the late 2010s, there was a significant amount of high density residential developments in the suburbs of Dublin, with mid to high-rise apartments being built in Sandyford, Ashtown, and Tallaght.

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**Who acts:** significant amount · **What happens:** start, be, build, amount · **To what, where:** late 2010s, mid, high density

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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 (significant amount), 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:154
# text = Starting in the late 2010s, there was a significant amount of high density residential developments in the suburbs of Dublin, with mid to high-rise apartments being built in Sandyford, Ashtown, and Tallaght.
1	Starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	2010s	2010	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	density	density	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	residential	residential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	developments	development	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	mid	mid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
30	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Sandyford	Sandyford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Ashtown	Ashtown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Tallaght	Tallaght	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	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 | **start** | gerund | a significant amount of high density and residential developments in the suburbs of Dublin and mid *not said here* |  |  | the late 2010s |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **be** | past | a significant amount of high density and residential developments in the suburbs of Dublin and mid |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | gerund · passive |  | mid *not said here* |  |  |  | to rise apartments; in Sandyford and Ashtown and Tallaght | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: in sandyford=Attribute |
| 4 | **amount** |  |  | high density and residential developments in the suburbs of Dublin and mid |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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