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title: The town grew into a substantial commercial centre under Olaf Guthfr… — Dublin · tree and pragmatics
description: The town grew into a substantial commercial centre under Olaf Guthfrithson in the mid-to-late 10th century and, despite some attacks by the native Irish, it remained largely under Viking control until the Norman invasion of Ireland was launched from Wales in 1169. Who acts: town. A sentence of Wikip
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# Dublin, sentence 36

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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 town grew into a substantial commercial centre under Olaf Guthfrithson in the mid-to-late 10th century and, despite some attacks by the native Irish, it remained largely under Viking control until the Norman invasion of Ireland was launched from Wales in 1169.

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**Who acts:** town · **What happens:** grow, remain, launch, invade · **To what, where:** substantial commercial centre, Viking control, Norman invasion, Wales, Ireland

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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 (town), 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:36
# text = The town grew into a substantial commercial centre under Olaf Guthfrithson in the mid-to-late 10th century and, despite some attacks by the native Irish, it remained largely under Viking control until the Norman invasion of Ireland was launched from Wales in 1169.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	substantial	substantial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Olaf	Olaf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Guthfrithson	Guthfrithson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	mid-to-late	mid-to-late	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	10th	10th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Viking	viking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Norman	norman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	launched	launch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	1169	1169	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the town |  |  |  | century | into a substantial commercial centre under Olaf *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into centre=Result |
| 2 | **remain** | past | town |  |  | Viking control |  | despite some attacks; largely *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under control=Location |
| 3 | **launch** | past · passive |  | the Norman invasion of Ireland |  | Wales |  | in 1169 | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in 1169=Destination |
| 4 | **invade** |  |  | Ireland |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act 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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