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title: However, English rule did not extend over the whole island until the… — Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: However, English rule did not extend over the whole island until the 16th–17th century Tudor conquest, which led to colonisation by settlers from Britain. Who acts: English rule, century Tudor conquest. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ireland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ireland, sentence 16

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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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However, English rule did not extend over the whole island until the 16th–17th century Tudor conquest, which led to colonisation by settlers from Britain.

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**Who acts:** English rule, century Tudor conquest · **What happens:** not extend, lead · **To what, where:** whole island

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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 (English rule, century Tudor conquest), 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:16
# text = However, English rule did not extend over the whole island until the 16th–17th century Tudor conquest, which led to colonisation by settlers from Britain.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	extend	extend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	until	until	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	16th	16th	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	17th	17th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	Tudor	Tudor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	colonisation	colonisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **extend** | past · do-support | English rule |  |  | the whole island | until century Tudor conquest  the 16th | however *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over island=Path |
| 2 | **lead** | past | century Tudor conquest  the 16th |  |  |  |  | to colonisation; by settlers from Britain | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to colonisation=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, «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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