Syria, sentence 127
From Wikipedia, «Syria», 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.
Later in history when "the Nizaris faced renewed Frankish hostilities, they received timely assistance from the Ayyubids."
Who acts: Nizaris, hostilities · What happens: face, renew, receive · To what, where: renewed Frankish hostilities, timely assistance, Ayyubids, history
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Syria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nizaris, hostilities), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 history | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 history | case |
| 3 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 faced | advmod |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 faced | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Nizaris | det |
| 7 | Nizaris | Nizaris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 faced | nsubj |
| 8 | faced | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 history | acl:relcl |
| 9 | renewed | renew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hostilities | amod |
| 10 | Frankish | frankish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hostilities | amod |
| 11 | hostilities | hostility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 faced | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 received | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 received | nsubj |
| 14 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 faced | parataxis |
| 15 | timely | timely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 assistance | amod |
| 16 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 received | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Ayyubids | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Ayyubids | det |
| 19 | Ayyubids | Ayyubid | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 assistance | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 history | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 history | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face in a quote | past | the Nizaris | renewed Frankish hostilities | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hostility=Destination | ||||
| 2 | renew in a quote | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | receive in a quote | past | hostilities = hostility | timely assistance | the Ayyubids | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme from ayyubid=Source |
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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