Syria, sentence 278
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 Syrian Arab Armed Forces melted away as its soldiers abandoned their weapons and uniforms, many deserting across the border to Iraq and Lebanon.
Who acts: Syrian Arab, soldiers, many · What happens: melt away, abandon, desert · To what, where: weapons, Iraq, border
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 Arab, soldiers, many), 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 Arab | det |
| 2 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Arab | amod |
| 3 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 melted | nsubj |
| 4 | Armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Forces | amod |
| 5 | Forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 melted | nsubj |
| 6 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 melted | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 abandoned | mark |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 abandoned | nsubj |
| 11 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 melted | advcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 abandoned | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 uniforms | cc |
| 15 | uniforms | uniform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 weapons | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 deserting | punct |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 deserting | nsubj |
| 18 | deserting | desert | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 abandoned | advcl |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 21 border | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 border | det |
| 21 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deserting | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Iraq | case |
| 23 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 deserting | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Lebanon | cc |
| 25 | Lebanon | Lebanon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Iraq | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 melted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt away | past | the Syrian Arab | Armed Forces nsubj; away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | abandon | past | heartland's soldiers | forces's weapons and uniforms | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme weapon=Source | ||||
| 3 | desert | gerund | many | Iraq and Lebanon | the border | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme across border=Destination |
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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