Damascus, sentence 210
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.
Soon after the massacre, the Crusaders aimed to take advantage of the unstable situation and launch an assault against Damascus with nearly 2,000 knights and 10,000 infantry.
Who acts: Crusaders · What happens: aim, take, launch · To what, where: advantage, assault
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 (Crusaders), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 massacre | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 massacre | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 massacre | det |
| 4 | massacre | massacre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 aimed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 massacre | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Crusaders | det |
| 7 | Crusaders | crusader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 aimed | nsubj |
| 8 | aimed | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 aimed | xcomp |
| 11 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 situation | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 situation | det |
| 14 | unstable | unstable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 situation | amod |
| 15 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 launch | cc |
| 17 | launch | launch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | conj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 assault | det |
| 19 | assault | assault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 launch | obj |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 Damascus | case |
| 21 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 assault | nmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 knights | case |
| 23 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 24 2,000 | advmod |
| 24 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 knights | nummod |
| 25 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 launch | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 infantry | cc |
| 27 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 infantry | nummod |
| 28 | infantry | infantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knights | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 aimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aim | past | the Crusaders | after the massacre | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Crusaders not said here | advantage | of the unstable situation | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme of situation=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | launch | infinitive | the Crusaders not said here | a assault | against Damascus; with 2,000 knights and 10,000 infantry | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent assault=Theme against damascus=Destination |
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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