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title: In March 1656, a converted Catholic priest, Séamas Corcy, was appoin… — Dublin · tree and pragmatics
description: In March 1656, a converted Catholic priest, Séamas Corcy, was appointed to preach in Irish at Bride's parish every Sunday, and was also ordered to preach at Drogheda and Athy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dublin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dublin, sentence 419

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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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In March 1656, a converted Catholic priest, Séamas Corcy, was appointed to preach in Irish at Bride's parish every Sunday, and was also ordered to preach at Drogheda and Athy.

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**What happens:** appoint, preach, order · **To what, where:** Irish, Drogheda

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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:419
# text = In March 1656, a converted Catholic priest, Séamas Corcy, was appointed to preach in Irish at Bride's parish every Sunday, and was also ordered to preach at Drogheda and Athy.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	1656	1656	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	converted	converted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Catholic	catholic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Séamas	Séamas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	Corcy	Corcy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	preach	preach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Bride	Bride	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	parish	parish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	preach	preach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Drogheda	Drogheda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Athy	Athy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | march |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **preach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Irish | sunday | at Bride's parish | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **order** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: clause=Topic |
| 4 | **preach** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Drogheda and Athy |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: 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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