Damascus, sentence 340
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 city's growth rate is higher than in Syria as a whole, primarily due to rural-urban migration and the influx of young Syrian migrants drawn by employment and educational opportunities.
Who acts: growth rate · What happens: be, draw · To what, where: young Syrian migrants
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 (growth rate), 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 | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 city | case |
| 4 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rate | compound |
| 5 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 higher | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 higher | cop |
| 7 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 Syria | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Syria | case |
| 10 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 higher | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 whole | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 whole | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 higher | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 migration | punct |
| 15 | primarily | primarily | ADV | _ | 21 migration | advmod |
| 16 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 21 migration | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 due | fixed |
| 18 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 migration | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 rural | punct |
| 20 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 migration | amod |
| 21 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 higher | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 influx | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 influx | det |
| 24 | influx | influx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 migration | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 migrants | case |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 migrants | amod |
| 27 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 migrants | amod |
| 28 | migrants | migrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 influx | nmod |
| 29 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 migrants | acl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 employment | case |
| 31 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drawn | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 opportunities | cc |
| 33 | educational | educational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 opportunities | amod |
| 34 | opportunities | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 employment | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 higher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the city's growth rate | than Syria; as a whole; due rural urban migration and the influx of young Syrian migrants; high property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | participle | young Syrian migrants not said here | by employment and educational opportunities | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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