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title: The base of the monument is lit, and its top is illuminated to serve… — Dublin · tree and pragmatics
description: The base of the monument is lit, and its top is illuminated to serve as a beacon in the night sky across the city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dublin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dublin, sentence 166

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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 base of the monument is lit, and its top is illuminated to serve as a beacon in the night sky across the city.

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**What happens:** lit, illuminate, serve · **To what, where:** base, top, city

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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: 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:166
# text = The base of the monument is lit, and its top is illuminated to serve as a beacon in the night sky across the city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	beacon	beacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	across	across	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lit** | present · passive |  | the base of the monument |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **illuminate** | present · passive |  | base's top |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the city |  | as a beacon in the night sky | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as beacon=Attribute |

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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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