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title: The Republic of Ireland's national theatre is the Abbey Theatre, whi… — Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Republic of Ireland's national theatre is the Abbey Theatre, which was founded in 1904, and the national Irish-language theatre is An Taibhdhearc, which was established in 1928 in Galway. Who acts: Republic, Taibhdhearc, national language theatre. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ireland» with its dep
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# Ireland, sentence 464

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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 Republic of Ireland's national theatre is the Abbey Theatre, which was founded in 1904, and the national Irish-language theatre is An Taibhdhearc, which was established in 1928 in Galway.

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**Who acts:** Republic, Taibhdhearc, national language theatre · **What happens:** be, found, establish · **To what, where:** Abbey Theatre, 1904, Taibhdhearc, 1928

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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 (Republic, Taibhdhearc, national language theatre), 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:464
# text = The Republic of Ireland's national theatre is the Abbey Theatre, which was founded in 1904, and the national Irish-language theatre is An Taibhdhearc, which was established in 1928 in Galway.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Abbey	Abbey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1904	1904	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Taibhdhearc	Taibhdhearc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	1928	1928	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Galway	Galway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Republic of Ireland's national theatre | the Abbey Theatre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **found** | past · passive | a Taibhdhearc | the Abbey Theatre |  | 1904 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the national language theatre | a Taibhdhearc |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **establish** | past · passive |  | a Taibhdhearc |  | 1928 |  | in Galway | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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