Damascus, sentence 3
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.
Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine" (مَدِيْنَةُ الْيَاسْمِينِ), Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world.
Who acts: Damascus · What happens: know, dub, be · To what, where: Syria, major cultural center
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 (Damascus), 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 | Known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | colloquially | colloquially | ADV | _ | 1 Known | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Syria | case |
| 4 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Known | obl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 Šām | case |
| 6 | aš | aš | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Šām | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 aš | punct |
| 8 | Šām | Šām | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Known | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dubbed | cc |
| 10 | dubbed | dub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Šām | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 City | punct |
| 12 | poetically | poetically | ADV | _ | 16 City | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 poetically | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 City | det |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 City | punct |
| 16 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Šām | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Jasmine | case |
| 18 | Jasmine | Jasmine | PROPN | _ | 16 City | nmod |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 City | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 الْيَاسْمِينِ | punct |
| 21 | مَدِيْنَةُ | مَدِيْنَةُ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 الْيَاسْمِينِ | compound |
| 22 | الْيَاسْمِينِ | الْيَاسْمِينِ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Šām | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 الْيَاسْمِينِ | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 center | punct |
| 25 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 center | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 center | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 center | det |
| 28 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 center | amod |
| 29 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 center | amod |
| 30 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Šām | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Levant | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Levant | det |
| 33 | Levant | Levant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 center | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 world | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 world | det |
| 36 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 world | amod |
| 37 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Levant | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | Syria | as aš Šām and the City of Jasmine; colloquially property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as šām=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | dub | participle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Damascus | a major cultural center | of the Levant and the Arab world | tree rules |
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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