Damascus, sentence 164
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.
With these successions, the status of Damascus was gradually weakening, as Suleiman chose Ramla as his residence and Hisham chose Resafa.
Who acts: status, Suleiman, residence · What happens: weaken, choose · To what, where: Ramla, Resafa
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 (status, Suleiman, residence), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 successions | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 successions | det |
| 3 | successions | succession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 weakening | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 successions | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 status | det |
| 6 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weakening | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Damascus | case |
| 8 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 status | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 weakening | aux |
| 10 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 11 weakening | advmod |
| 11 | weakening | weaken | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chose | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 chose | mark |
| 14 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 chose | nsubj |
| 15 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 weakening | conj |
| 16 | Ramla | Ramla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 chose | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 chose | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 residence | nmod:poss |
| 19 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chose | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Hisham | cc |
| 21 | Hisham | Hisham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 residence | conj |
| 22 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 chose | advcl |
| 23 | Resafa | Resafa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 chose | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 weakening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weaken | past · progressive | the status of Damascus | with this successions; gradually property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with succession=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | Suleiman | Ramla | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ramla=Theme | ||||
| 3 | choose | past | status's residence and Hisham | Resafa | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resafa=Theme |
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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