Syria, sentence 276
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.
Homs was captured by rebel forces by the early morning of 8 December, leaving no major regime strongholds between the rebel advance and Damascus itself.
Who acts: rebel forces · What happens: capture, leave · To what, where: Homs, major regime strongholds, rebel advance
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 forces), 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 | Homs | Homs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 captured | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 captured | aux:pass |
| 3 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 forces | case |
| 5 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forces | compound |
| 6 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 captured | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 9 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 morning | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 captured | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 8 | case |
| 12 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 morning | nmod |
| 13 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 8 | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaving | punct |
| 15 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 captured | advcl |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 strongholds | det |
| 17 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 strongholds | amod |
| 18 | regime | regime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strongholds | compound |
| 19 | strongholds | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 leaving | obj |
| 20 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 advance | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 advance | det |
| 22 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 advance | compound |
| 23 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaving | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Damascus | cc |
| 25 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 advance | appos |
| 26 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 25 Damascus | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past · passive | rebel forces | Homs | morning | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | rebel forces not said here | no major regime strongholds | the rebel advance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stronghold=Theme between advance=Location |
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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