Damascus, sentence 8
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.
First settled in the 3rd millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750.
What happens: settle, choose · To what, where: 3rd millennium, millennium
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: 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 settled | advmod |
| 2 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 millennium | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 millennium | det |
| 5 | 3rd | 3rd | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 6 millennium | amod |
| 6 | millennium | millennium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 settled | obl |
| 7 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 millennium | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chosen | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 chosen | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chosen | aux:pass |
| 11 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 settled | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 capital | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 capital | det |
| 14 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chosen | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Caliphate | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Caliphate | det |
| 17 | Umayyad | Umayyad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Caliphate | compound |
| 18 | Caliphate | caliphate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 capital | nmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 661 | case |
| 20 | 661 | 661 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 Caliphate | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 750 | case |
| 22 | 750 | 750 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 661 | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | the 3rd millennium | first property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in millennium=Location | ||||
| 2 | choose | past · passive | millennium | as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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