Damascus, sentence 144
From Wikipedia, «Damascus», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The Prophet Muhammad's first indirect interaction with the people of Damascus was when he sent a letter, through his companion Shiya ibn Wahab, to Harith ibn Abi Shamir, the king of Damascus.
Who acts: first indirect interaction, Prophet Muhammad · What happens: be, interact · To what, where: ibn Abi, companion
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Damascus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first indirect interaction, Prophet Muhammad), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Muhammad | det |
| 2 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Muhammad | compound |
| 3 | Muhammad | Muhammad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 interaction | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Muhammad | case |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 interaction | amod |
| 6 | indirect | indirect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 interaction | amod |
| 7 | interaction | interaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 interaction | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Damascus | case |
| 12 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 people | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sent | cop |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 sent | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 letter | det |
| 18 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 companion | punct |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 companion | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 companion | nmod:poss |
| 22 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 23 | Shiya | Shiya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 companion | appos |
| 24 | ibn | Ibn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Shiya | flat |
| 25 | Wahab | Wahab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Shiya | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Abi | punct |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Abi | case |
| 28 | Harith | Harith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 ibn | compound |
| 29 | ibn | Ibn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Abi | compound |
| 30 | Abi | Abi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 31 | Shamir | Shamir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Abi | flat |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 king | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 king | det |
| 34 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Abi | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Damascus | case |
| 36 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 king | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prophet Muhammad's first indirect interaction with the people of Damascus | ibn Abi | Damascus's companion | Damascus nsubj; a letter obj; send property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | interact | the Prophet Muhammad | with the people of Damascus | nom interaction «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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, «Damascus», 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Damascus/144/