Syria, sentence 218
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.
Assad transformed a Ba'athist party state into a dictatorship marked by his pervasive grip on the party, armed forces, secret police, media, education sector, religious and cultural spheres and all aspects of civil society.
Who acts: Assad · What happens: transform, mark, grip · To what, where: party state, dictatorship, party
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 (Assad), 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 | Assad | Assad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 transformed | nsubj |
| 2 | transformed | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 state | det |
| 4 | Ba'athist | Ba'athist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 party | compound |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 state | compound |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 transformed | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 dictatorship | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dictatorship | det |
| 9 | dictatorship | dictatorship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 transformed | obl |
| 10 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dictatorship | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 grip | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 grip | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pervasive | pervasive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grip | amod |
| 14 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marked | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 party | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 party | det |
| 17 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grip | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forces | punct |
| 19 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 forces | amod |
| 20 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grip | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 police | punct |
| 22 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 police | amod |
| 23 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dictatorship | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 media | punct |
| 25 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 police | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sector | punct |
| 27 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sector | compound |
| 28 | sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 police | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 religious | punct |
| 30 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 transformed | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 spheres | cc |
| 32 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 spheres | amod |
| 33 | spheres | sphere | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 religious | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 aspects | cc |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 aspects | det |
| 36 | aspects | aspect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 spheres | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 society | case |
| 38 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 society | amod |
| 39 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 aspects | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 transformed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | past | Assad | a party state | into a dictatorship and secret police and media and education sector result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent state=Patient into dictatorship=Result | |||
| 2 | mark | participle | a dictatorship and secret police and media and education sector not said here | by Assad's pervasive grip on the party and armed forces | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by grip=Destination | ||||
| 3 | grip | Assad | the party | nom grip «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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