Syria, sentence 268
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.
The rebel offensive, which had begun on 27 November, continued its advance into Hama province following their capture of Aleppo.
Who acts: rebel offensive, accordance, offensives · What happens: begin, continue, follow, advance, capture · To what, where: 27, advance, Hama province, Aleppo
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 (rebel offensive, accordance, offensives), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 offensive | det |
| 2 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offensive | compound |
| 3 | offensive | offensive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 begun | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 begun | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 begun | aux |
| 7 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 offensive | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 27 | case |
| 9 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 begun | obl |
| 10 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 27 | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 offensive | punct |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 advance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 province | case |
| 16 | Hama | Hama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 province | compound |
| 17 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obl |
| 18 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 capture | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 capture | nmod:poss |
| 20 | capture | capture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Aleppo | case |
| 22 | Aleppo | Aleppo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 capture | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · perfect | the rebel offensive | 27 November | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | the rebel offensive | accordance's advance | Hama province | follow offensives's capture of Aleppo | tree rules | ||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | advance | accordance | nom advance «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | capture | offensives = offensive | Aleppo | nom capture «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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