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title: Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom with a local execut… — Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom with a local executive and assembly which exercise devolved powers. Who acts: Northern Ireland, local executive. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ireland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ireland, sentence 253

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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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Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom with a local executive and assembly which exercise devolved powers.

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**Who acts:** Northern Ireland, local executive · **What happens:** be, devolve · **To what, where:** part, powers

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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 (Northern Ireland, local executive), 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:253
# text = Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom with a local executive and assembly which exercise devolved powers.
1	Northern	Northern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	9	flat	_	_
9	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	executive	executive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	devolved	devolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Northern Ireland | a part |  |  |  | of the United Kingdom; with a local executive and assembly | tree rules |
| 2 | **devolve** | past | a local executive and assembly | powers |  |  |  | exercise *nsubj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent power=Theme |

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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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