Damascus, sentence 95
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.
Under Ezron's grandson, Ben-Hadad I (880–841 BC), and his successor Hazael, Damascus annexed Bashan (modern-day Hauran region), and went on the offensive with Israel.
Who acts: Ben Hadad · What happens: annex, go · To what, where: Bashan, grandson, offensive
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 (Ben Hadad), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 4 grandson | case |
| 2 | Ezron | Ezron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Ezron | case |
| 4 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 annexed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandson | punct |
| 6 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hadad | flat |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hadad | punct |
| 8 | Hadad | Hadad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 annexed | nsubj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Hadad | appos |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 880 | punct |
| 11 | 880 | 880 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Hadad | appos |
| 12 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 841 | punct |
| 13 | 841 | 841 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 880 | flat |
| 14 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 880 | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 880 | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 annexed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 annexed | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 successor | nmod:poss |
| 19 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 annexed | nsubj |
| 20 | Hazael | Hazael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 successor | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Damascus | punct |
| 22 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Hazael | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | annexed | annex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | Bashan | Bashan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 annexed | obj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 region | punct |
| 26 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 day | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 modern | punct |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 region | compound |
| 29 | Hauran | Hauran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 region | compound |
| 30 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Bashan | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 region | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 went | cc |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 annexed | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 offensive | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 offensive | det |
| 37 | offensive | offensive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 Israel | case |
| 39 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 annexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | annex | past | Ben Hadad | Bashan | Ezron's grandson | Ezron's successor nsubj | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bashan=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | past | Ben Hadad not said here | the offensive | with Israel | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with israel=Beneficiary |
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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