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title: Donegal Bay is shaped like a funnel and catches west/south-west Atla… — Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: Donegal Bay is shaped like a funnel and catches west/south-west Atlantic winds, creating good surf, especially in winter. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ireland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ireland, sentence 553

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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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Donegal Bay is shaped like a funnel and catches west/south-west Atlantic winds, creating good surf, especially in winter.

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**What happens:** shape, catch, create · **To what, where:** Donegal Bay, west/south, good surf

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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: 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:553
# text = Donegal Bay is shaped like a funnel and catches west/south-west Atlantic winds, creating good surf, especially in winter.
1	Donegal	Donegal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	funnel	funnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	west/south	west/south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	creating	create	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shape** | present · passive |  | Donegal Bay |  |  |  | like a funnel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **catch** | present |  | west/south |  |  |  | west Atlantic winds *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent west/south=Beneficiary wind=Theme |
| 3 | **create** | gerund |  | good surf |  |  | winter |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surf=Result |

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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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