Damascus, sentence 374

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 Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Grand Mosque of Damascus, is one of the largest mosques in the world and also one of the oldest sites of continuous prayer since the rise of Islam.

Who acts: Umayyad Mosque, Islam · What happens: know, be, rise · To what, where: Umayyad Mosque, one

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 (Umayyad Mosque, Islam), 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	3 Mosque	det
2	Umayyad	Umayyad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mosque	compound
3	Mosque	Mosque	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 one	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 known	punct
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 known	advmod
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Mosque	acl
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 Mosque	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Mosque	det
9	Grand	Grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Mosque	amod
10	Mosque	Mosque	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 known	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Damascus	case
12	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mosque	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Mosque	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 one	cop
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 mosques	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mosques	det
18	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 mosques	amod
19	mosques	mosque	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mosques	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 one	cc
24	also	also	ADV	_	25 one	advmod
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 one	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 sites	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sites	det
28	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 sites	amod
29	sites	site	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 prayer	case
31	continuous	continuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 prayer	amod
32	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sites	nmod
33	since	since	ADP	_	35 rise	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rise	det
35	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 one	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Islam	case
37	Islam	Islam	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 rise	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	participle		the Umayyad Mosque not said here	as the Grand Mosque of Damascus	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as mosque=Attribute
2	is a	present	the Umayyad Mosque	one	of the largest mosques in the world	tree rules
3	rise		Islam			nom rise «event intransitive»: of=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.

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.

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Damascus, sentence 374