Damascus, sentence 364
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Syrian Sufism has its stronghold in urban regions such as Damascus, where it also established political movements such as Zayd, with the help of a series of mosques, and clergy such as Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Sa'id Hawwa, Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri and Muhammad al-Yaqoubi.
Who acts: Syrian Sufism, world · What happens: have, establish, help · To what, where: stronghold, urban regions, political movements, series
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 (Syrian Sufism, world), 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 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Sufism | amod |
| 2 | Sufism | Sufism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stronghold | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stronghold | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 regions | case |
| 7 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 regions | amod |
| 8 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stronghold | nmod |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 Damascus | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 regions | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 established | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 established | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 established | nsubj |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 established | advmod |
| 16 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stronghold | acl:relcl |
| 17 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 movements | amod |
| 18 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 established | obj |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 21 Zayd | case |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 such | fixed |
| 21 | Zayd | Zayd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 movements | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 help | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 help | det |
| 25 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 established | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 series | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 series | det |
| 28 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 help | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 mosques | case |
| 30 | mosques | mosque | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 series | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 clergy | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 clergy | cc |
| 33 | clergy | clergy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 34 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 36 Abd | case |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 such | fixed |
| 36 | Abd | Abd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 clergy | nmod |
| 37 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Abd | flat |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Ghani | punct |
| 39 | Ghani | Ghani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Abd | conj |
| 40 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Ghani | flat |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 Nabulsi | punct |
| 42 | Nabulsi | Nabulsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Ghani | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Sa'id | punct |
| 44 | Sa'id | Sa'id | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Abd | conj |
| 45 | Hawwa | Hawwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Sa'id | flat |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Abd | punct |
| 47 | Abd | Abd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Abd | conj |
| 48 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Abd | flat |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 Rahman | punct |
| 50 | Rahman | Rahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Abd | conj |
| 51 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Abd | flat |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 Shaghouri | punct |
| 53 | Shaghouri | Shaghouri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Abd | conj |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 Muhammad | cc |
| 55 | Muhammad | Muhammad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Abd | conj |
| 56 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 Muhammad | flat |
| 57 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 Yaqoubi | punct |
| 58 | Yaqoubi | Yaqoubi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Abd | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Syrian Sufism | world's stronghold | urban regions such Damascus | clergy obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | establish | past | world | political movements | such Zayd; with the help of a series of mosques | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent movement=Theme with help=Source | |||
| 3 | help | a series of mosques | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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