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title: Modern estimates suggest that approximately 20,000–30,000 soldiers d… — Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: Modern estimates suggest that approximately 20,000–30,000 soldiers died in combat, while an estimated 200,000 to over 300,000 civilians perished from war-related famine, disease, and displacement, with some contemporary estimates, such as those by Sir William Petty, suggesting even higher mortality 
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# Ireland, sentence 125

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From Wikipedia, [«Ireland»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland), 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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Modern estimates suggest that approximately 20,000–30,000 soldiers died in combat, while an estimated 200,000 to over 300,000 civilians perished from war-related famine, disease, and displacement, with some contemporary estimates, such as those by Sir William Petty, suggesting even higher mortality figures.

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**Who acts:** Modern estimates, 20,000 soldiers · **What happens:** suggest, die, estimate, perish · **To what, where:** estimated 200,000 civilians, war related famine, higher mortality figures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ireland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Modern estimates, 20,000 soldiers), 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:Ireland:125
# text = Modern estimates suggest that approximately 20,000–30,000 soldiers died in combat, while an estimated 200,000 to over 300,000 civilians perished from war-related famine, disease, and displacement, with some contemporary estimates, such as those by Sir William Petty, suggesting even higher mortality figures.
1	Modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	estimates	estimate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suggest	suggest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	30,000	30,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
16	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
17	200,000	200000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	300,000	300000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
21	civilians	civilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
22	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	displacement	displacement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
36	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	estimates	estimate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	41	case	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	appos	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod:desc	_	_
44	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	Petty	Petty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	suggesting	suggest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
48	even	even	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	51	amod	_	_
50	mortality	mortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Modern estimates |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | past | 20,000 soldiers | a estimated 200,000 civilians |  |  |  | in combat | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in combat=Attribute |
| 3 | **estimate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **perish** | participle |  | a estimated 200,000 civilians *not said here* |  | war related famine and disease and displacement |  | with some contemporary estimates | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from famine=Causer |
| 5 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | gerund |  | higher mortality figures |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent figure=Topic |

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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, «Ireland», 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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