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title: Dublin is the centre of both media and communications in Ireland, wi… — Dublin · tree and pragmatics
description: Dublin is the centre of both media and communications in Ireland, with many newspapers, radio stations, television stations, and telephone companies based there. Who acts: Dublin. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dublin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dublin, sentence 352

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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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Dublin is the centre of both media and communications in Ireland, with many newspapers, radio stations, television stations, and telephone companies based there.

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**Who acts:** Dublin · **What happens:** be, base · **To what, where:** centre, telephone companies

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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 (Dublin), 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:352
# text = Dublin is the centre of both media and communications in Ireland, with many newspapers, radio stations, television stations, and telephone companies based there.
1	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	communications	communication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	telephone	telephone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
26	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Dublin | the centre and telephone companies |  |  |  | of both media and communications in Ireland; many newspapers and radio stations and television stations *appos*; telephone companies *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  | telephone companies *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |

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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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