Damascus, sentence 258
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.
Ghazan then retreated with most of his forces in February, probably because the Mongol horses needed fodder, and left behind about 10,000 horsemen under the Mongol general Mulay.
Who acts: Ghazan, Mongol horses · What happens: retreat, need, leave · To what, where: fodder, 10,000 horsemen
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 (Ghazan, Mongol horses), 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 | Ghazan | Ghazan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 retreated | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 retreated | advmod |
| 3 | retreated | retreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 forces | case |
| 5 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 forces | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 forces | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 forces | nmod:poss |
| 8 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 retreated | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 February | case |
| 10 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 forces | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 needed | punct |
| 12 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 17 needed | advmod |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 needed | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horses | det |
| 15 | Mongol | Mongol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 horses | compound |
| 16 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 needed | nsubj |
| 17 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 retreated | conj |
| 18 | fodder | fodder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 needed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 retreated | conj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 horsemen | case |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 10,000 | advmod |
| 24 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 horsemen | nummod |
| 25 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 left | obl |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 Mulay | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Mulay | det |
| 28 | Mongol | Mongol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Mulay | compound |
| 29 | general | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Mulay | nmod:desc |
| 30 | Mulay | Mulay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 horsemen | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 retreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retreat | past | Ghazan | then | with Ghazan's most forces in February | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | need | past | the Mongol horses | fodder | probably property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fodder=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | participle | Ghazan not said here | 10,000 horsemen under the Mongol Mulay general | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind horseman=Location |
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/258/