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title: Alongside mainstream Western culture, a indigenous culture exists, a… — Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: Alongside mainstream Western culture, a indigenous culture exists, as expressed through Gaelic games, Irish music, Irish language, and Irish dance. Who acts: indigenous culture. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ireland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ireland, sentence 27

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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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Alongside mainstream Western culture, a indigenous culture exists, as expressed through Gaelic games, Irish music, Irish language, and Irish dance.

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**Who acts:** indigenous culture · **What happens:** exist, express · **To what, where:** mainstream Western culture, Irish dance, Gaelic games

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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 (indigenous culture), 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:27
# text = Alongside mainstream Western culture, a indigenous culture exists, as expressed through Gaelic games, Irish music, Irish language, and Irish dance.
1	Alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	mainstream	mainstream	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | a indigenous culture |  |  | mainstream Western culture |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme alongside culture=Location |
| 2 | **express** | participle | a indigenous culture *not said here* | Irish dance |  | Gaelic games and Irish music and Irish language |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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