Syria, sentence 345
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.
Representatives of the Syrian Interim government were invited to take up Syria's seat at the Arab League in 2013 and was recognised as the "sole representative of the Syrian people" by several nations including the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
Who acts: Representatives · What happens: invite, take up, recognise, include · To what, where: Representatives, seat, 2013
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 (Representatives), 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 | Representatives | representative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 government | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 government | det |
| 4 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 government | amod |
| 5 | Interim | interim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 government | amod |
| 6 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Representatives | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 invited | aux:pass |
| 8 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 invited | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 take | compound:prt |
| 12 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 seat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Syria | case |
| 14 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 League | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 League | det |
| 17 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 League | amod |
| 18 | League | League | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 2013 | case |
| 20 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 take | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 recognised | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 recognised | aux:pass |
| 23 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 invited | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 representative | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 representative | det |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 representative | punct |
| 27 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 representative | amod |
| 28 | representative | representative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 recognised | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 people | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 people | det |
| 31 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 people | amod |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 representative | nmod |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 people | punct |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 nations | case |
| 35 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 nations | amod |
| 36 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 people | nmod |
| 37 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 States | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 States | det |
| 39 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 States | amod |
| 40 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 36 nations | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Kingdom | punct |
| 42 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 43 Kingdom | flat |
| 43 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 States | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 France | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 France | cc |
| 46 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 invited | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past · passive | Representatives of the Syrian Interim government | France obl | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Representatives of the Syrian Interim government not said here | Syria's seat | 2013 | at the Arab League | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent seat=Value in 2013=Location | ||
| 3 | recognise | past · passive | as the sole representative of the Syrian people by several nations include the United States and United Kingdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as representative=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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