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title: In that year the British government officially ended its military su… — Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: In that year the British government officially ended its military support of the police in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner) and began withdrawing troops. Who acts: British government, government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ireland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ireland, sentence 241

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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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In that year the British government officially ended its military support of the police in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner) and began withdrawing troops.

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**Who acts:** British government, government · **What happens:** end, begin, withdraw, support · **To what, where:** military support, troops, police

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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 (British government, government), 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:241
# text = In that year the British government officially ended its military support of the police in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner) and began withdrawing troops.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Northern	Northern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
17	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Operation	Operation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	Banner	Banner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	withdrawing	withdraw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | the British government | government's military support of the police in Northern Ireland |  |  | year | officially *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality support=Eventuality |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the British government *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **withdraw** | gerund | the British government *not said here* | troops |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troops=Theme |
| 4 | **support** |  | government | the police in Northern Ireland |  |  |  |  | nom support «act transitive»: poss=agent of=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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