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title: Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in th… — Dublin · tree and pragmatics
description: Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, part of the Wicklow Mountains range. Who acts: Liffey, Dublin Mountains. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dublin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dublin, sentence 2

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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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Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, part of the Wicklow Mountains range.

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**Who acts:** Liffey, Dublin Mountains · **What happens:** situate, be, border · **To what, where:** Dublin Bay, province, south

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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 (Liffey, Dublin Mountains), 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:2
# text = Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, part of the Wicklow Mountains range.
1	Situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Liffey	Liffey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	bordered	border	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	Wicklow	Wicklow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	37	compound	_	_
37	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **situate** | participle |  |  |  | Dublin Bay |  | at the mouth of the River Liffey | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bay=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present | Liffey |  |  | the province |  | of Leinster | tree rules |
| 3 | **border** | present · passive | the Dublin Mountains |  |  | the south |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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