Syria, sentence 244
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.
Beginning in spring 2011, the Syrian government deployed the Syrian Army to quell the uprising, and several cities were besieged, though the unrest continued.
Who acts: Syrian government, unrest · What happens: begin, deploy, quell, besiege, continue · To what, where: Syrian Army, uprising, several cities
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 (Syrian government, unrest), 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 | Beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 deployed | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 spring | case |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Beginning | obl |
| 4 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 spring | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beginning | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 government | det |
| 7 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 government | amod |
| 8 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deployed | nsubj |
| 9 | deployed | deploy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Army | det |
| 11 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Army | amod |
| 12 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 deployed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 quell | mark |
| 14 | quell | quell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 deployed | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 uprising | det |
| 16 | uprising | uprising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quell | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 besieged | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 besieged | cc |
| 19 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cities | amod |
| 20 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 besieged | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 besieged | aux:pass |
| 22 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 deployed | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 continued | punct |
| 24 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 27 continued | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 unrest | det |
| 26 | unrest | unrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 continued | nsubj |
| 27 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 besieged | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 deployed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | gerund | the Syrian government not said here | spring | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | deploy | past | the Syrian government | the Syrian Army | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | quell | to-infinitive | the Syrian government not said here | the uprising | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uprising=Patient | ||||
| 4 | besiege | past · passive | several cities | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | continue | past | the unrest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, «Syria», 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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