Syria, sentence 320
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.
Despite this, Syria remained a one-party state with an extensive secret police apparatus that curtailed any independent political activity.
Who acts: Syria, extensive secret police apparatus · What happens: remain, curtail · To what, where: party state, independent political activity
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 (Syria, extensive secret police apparatus), 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 remained | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 state | det |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 party | nummod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 9 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 state | compound |
| 10 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 apparatus | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 apparatus | det |
| 13 | extensive | extensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 apparatus | amod |
| 14 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 apparatus | amod |
| 15 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 apparatus | compound |
| 16 | apparatus | apparatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 state | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 curtailed | nsubj |
| 18 | curtailed | curtail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 apparatus | acl:relcl |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 activity | det |
| 20 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 activity | amod |
| 21 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 activity | amod |
| 22 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 curtailed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Syria | a party state | despite this; with a extensive secret police apparatus | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme state=Attribute | |||
| 2 | curtail | past | a extensive secret police apparatus | any independent political activity | tree rules |
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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