Syria, sentence 322
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 ruling Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party governed Syria as a police state through its control of the Syrian military and security apparatus; this system has frequently been described as totalitarian, although some scholars have preferred the term authoritarian.
Who acts: ruling Arab Socialist · What happens: rule, govern, describe, prefer · To what, where: Syria, control, system, scholars
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 (ruling Arab Socialist), 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 | 4 Socialist | det |
| 2 | ruling | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Socialist | amod |
| 3 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Socialist | amod |
| 4 | Socialist | socialist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 governed | nsubj |
| 5 | Ba'ath | Ba'ath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Socialist | appos |
| 6 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ba'ath | flat |
| 7 | governed | govern | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 governed | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 state | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 state | det |
| 11 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 state | compound |
| 12 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 governed | obl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 control | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 control | nmod:poss |
| 15 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 governed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 apparatus | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 apparatus | det |
| 18 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 apparatus | amod |
| 19 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 apparatus | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 apparatus | cc |
| 21 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 apparatus | compound |
| 22 | apparatus | apparatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 control | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 described | punct |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 system | det |
| 25 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 described | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 described | aux |
| 27 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 29 described | advmod |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 described | aux:pass |
| 29 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 governed | parataxis |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 totalitarian | case |
| 31 | totalitarian | totalitarian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 described | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 preferred | punct |
| 33 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 37 preferred | mark |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 scholars | det |
| 35 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 preferred | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 preferred | aux |
| 37 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 described | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 term | det |
| 39 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 preferred | obj |
| 40 | authoritarian | authoritarian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 preferred | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 governed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | gerund | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | govern | past | the ruling Arab Socialist | Syria | Socialist's control of the Syrian military security apparatus | as a police state | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent syria=Theme | ||
| 3 | describe | present · perfect · passive | this system | as totalitarian; frequently property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as totalitarian=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | prefer | present · perfect · passive | some scholars | the term obj; authoritarian property | 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.
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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