---
title: In 1657, the English colonists in Dublin presented a petition to the… — Dublin · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1657, the English colonists in Dublin presented a petition to the Municipal Council complaining that in Dublin itself "there is Irish commonly and usually spoken". Who acts: English colonists, Dublin. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dublin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dublin/420/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Dublin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dublin/) / 420

# Dublin, sentence 420

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In 1657, the English colonists in Dublin presented a petition to the Municipal Council complaining that in Dublin itself "there is Irish commonly and usually spoken".

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** English colonists, Dublin · **What happens:** present, complain, be, speak · **To what, where:** petition, Municipal Council, 1657, Dublin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (English colonists, Dublin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:420
# text = In 1657, the English colonists in Dublin presented a petition to the Municipal Council complaining that in Dublin itself "there is Irish commonly and usually spoken".
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1657	1657	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	colonists	colonist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Municipal	Municipal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	complaining	complain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	commonly	commonly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | past | the English colonists in Dublin | a petition | the Municipal Council | 1657 |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent petition=Theme to council=Recipient |
| 2 | **complain** *speech: other* | gerund | the English colonists in Dublin *not said here* |  |  | Dublin  petition |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Dublin  petition *not said here* |  |  | there |  | commonly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | participle | Dublin  petition *not said here* |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 419](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dublin/419/)
- next →: [sentence 421](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dublin/421/)
- ↑ back to [Dublin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dublin/)