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title: The executive is jointly headed by the first and deputy first minist… — Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: The executive is jointly headed by the first and deputy first minister, with the ministries being allocated in proportion to each party's representation in the assembly. Who acts: first first minister, party. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ireland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ireland, sentence 254

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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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The executive is jointly headed by the first and deputy first minister, with the ministries being allocated in proportion to each party's representation in the assembly.

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**Who acts:** first first minister, party · **What happens:** head, allocate, represent · **To what, where:** executive, ministries, proportion, assembly

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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 (first first minister, party), 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:254
# text = The executive is jointly headed by the first and deputy first minister, with the ministries being allocated in proportion to each party's representation in the assembly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	executive	executive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	jointly	jointly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	deputy	deputy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ministries	ministry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	allocated	allocate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **head** | present · passive | the first first minister | the executive |  |  |  | jointly *property* | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **allocate** | gerund · passive |  | the ministries |  | proportion |  | to each party's representation in the assembly *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to representation=Goal |
| 3 | **represent** |  | each party |  |  | the assembly |  |  | nom representation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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