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title: The Viking settlement of about 841, Dyflin, and a Gaelic settlement,… — Dublin · tree and pragmatics
description: The Viking settlement of about 841, Dyflin, and a Gaelic settlement, Áth Cliath ("ford of hurdles") further up the river, at the present-day Father Mathew Bridge, also known as Dublin Bridge, at the bottom of Church Street. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dublin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dublin, sentence 17

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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 Viking settlement of about 841, Dyflin, and a Gaelic settlement, Áth Cliath ("ford of hurdles") further up the river, at the present-day Father Mathew Bridge, also known as Dublin Bridge, at the bottom of Church Street.

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**What happens:** know · **To what, where:** bottom, Viking settlement

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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:17
# text = The Viking settlement of about 841, Dyflin, and a Gaelic settlement, Áth Cliath ("ford of hurdles") further up the river, at the present-day Father Mathew Bridge, also known as Dublin Bridge, at the bottom of Church Street.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Viking	viking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	841	841	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Dyflin	Dyflin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Áth	Áth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	Cliath	Cliath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ford	ford	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hurdles	hurdle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
24	further	further	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
34	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
35	Mathew	Mathew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
36	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	also	also	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  | the bottom of Church Street |  | as Dublin Bridge | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as bridge=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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