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title: The native language of most Dubliners today is English, and several… — Dublin · tree and pragmatics
description: The native language of most Dubliners today is English, and several local dialects are subsumed under the label Dublin English. Who acts: native language. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dublin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dublin, sentence 426

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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 native language of most Dubliners today is English, and several local dialects are subsumed under the label Dublin English.

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**Who acts:** native language · **What happens:** be, subsume · **To what, where:** English, several local dialects, label

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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 (native language), 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:426
# text = The native language of most Dubliners today is English, and several local dialects are subsumed under the label Dublin English.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	Dubliners	dubliner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dialects	dialect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	subsumed	subsume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the native language of most Dubliners  today | English |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **subsume** | present · passive |  | several local dialects |  | the label |  |  | tree rules |

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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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