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title: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's contribution, the Edgeworth Box. remains… — Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's contribution, the Edgeworth Box. remains influential in neo-classical microeconomic theory to this day; while Richard Cantillon inspired Adam Smith, among others. Who acts: contribution, Richard, Francis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ireland» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Ireland, sentence 482

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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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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's contribution, the Edgeworth Box. remains influential in neo-classical microeconomic theory to this day; while Richard Cantillon inspired Adam Smith, among others.

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**Who acts:** contribution, Richard, Francis · **What happens:** remain, inspire, contribute · **To what, where:** Adam Smith

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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 (contribution, Richard, Francis), 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:482
# text = Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's contribution, the Edgeworth Box. remains influential in neo-classical microeconomic theory to this day; while Richard Cantillon inspired Adam Smith, among others.
1	Francis	Francis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Ysidro	Ysidro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Edgeworth	Edgeworth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
5	contribution	contribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Edgeworth	Edgeworth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Box	Box	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
11	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	influential	influential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	neo-classical	neo-classical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	microeconomic	microeconomic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	Cantillon	Cantillon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
25	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | Francis's contribution |  |  |  |  | influential *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **inspire** | past | Richard | Adam Smith |  |  |  | among others | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus smith=Experiencer |
| 3 | **contribute** |  | Francis |  |  |  |  |  | nom contribution «act transitive»: poss=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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