Syria, sentence 330
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.
On 31 January 1973, Hafez al-Assad implemented a new constitution, which led to a national crisis.
Who acts: Hafez, new constitution · What happens: implement, lead · To what, where: new constitution, 31
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 (Hafez, new constitution), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 31 | case |
| 2 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 implemented | obl |
| 3 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 31 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1973 | 1973 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 31 | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 31 | punct |
| 6 | Hafez | Hafez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 implemented | nsubj |
| 7 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hafez | flat |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Assad | punct |
| 9 | Assad | Assad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hafez | flat |
| 10 | implemented | implement | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 constitution | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 constitution | amod |
| 13 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 implemented | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 led | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 led | nsubj |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 constitution | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 crisis | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 crisis | det |
| 19 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 crisis | amod |
| 20 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 implemented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | implement | past | Hafez | a new constitution | 31 January | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Patient | |||
| 2 | lead | past | a new constitution | to a national crisis | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to crisis=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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