--- title: In 1166, Mac Murrough had fled to Anjou, France, following a war inv… — Ireland · tree and pragmatics description: In 1166, Mac Murrough had fled to Anjou, France, following a war involving Tighearnán Ua Ruairc, of Breifne, and sought the assistance of the Angevin King Henry II, in recapturing his kingdom. Who acts: Mac, war. 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In 1166, Mac Murrough had fled to Anjou, France, following a war involving Tighearnán Ua Ruairc, of Breifne, and sought the assistance of the Angevin King Henry II, in recapturing his kingdom. **Who acts:** Mac, war · **What happens:** flee, follow, involve, seek, recapture, assist · **To what, where:** Anjou, 1166, war, Tighearnán, assistance, kingdom 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 (Mac, war), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:95 # text = In 1166, Mac Murrough had fled to Anjou, France, following a war involving Tighearnán Ua Ruairc, of Breifne, and sought the assistance of the Angevin King Henry II, in recapturing his kingdom. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1166 1166 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Mac Mac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 Murrough Murrough PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 fled flee VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Anjou Anjou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 involving involve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 Tighearnán Tighearnán PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 Ua Ua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 19 Ruairc Ruairc PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Breifne Breifne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 assistance assistance NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 Angevin Angevin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:desc _ _ 32 Henry Henry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 33 II II NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 32 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 in in SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 recapturing recapture VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flee** | past · perfect | Mac | | Anjou France | 1166 | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to anjou=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | Mac *not said here* | a war | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Theme | | 3 | **involve** | gerund | a war *not said here* | Tighearnán | | | | of Breifne | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tighearnán=Theme | | 4 | **seek** | past | Mac *not said here* | the assistance of the Henry Angevin King | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme | | 5 | **recapture** | gerund | Mac *not said here* | Mac's kingdom | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | | 6 | **assist** | | | the Henry Angevin King | | | | | nom assistance «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ireland/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ireland/96/) - ↑ back to [Ireland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ireland/)