Syria, sentence 358
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 People's Assembly was also established to serve as an interim parliament during the five-year transition, overseeing the drafting of a new permanent constitution.
What happens: establish, serve, oversee, draft · To what, where: Assembly, drafting, new permanent constitution
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 People | det |
| 2 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Assembly | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 People | case |
| 4 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 established | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 established | aux:pass |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 established | advmod |
| 7 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 serve | mark |
| 9 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 established | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 parliament | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 parliament | det |
| 12 | interim | interim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 parliament | amod |
| 13 | parliament | parliament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 serve | obl |
| 14 | during | during | ADP | _ | 19 transition | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 transition | det |
| 16 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 year | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 five | punct |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 transition | compound |
| 19 | transition | transition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 serve | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 overseeing | punct |
| 21 | overseeing | oversee | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 serve | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 drafting | det |
| 23 | drafting | drafting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 overseeing | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 constitution | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 constitution | det |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 constitution | amod |
| 27 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 constitution | amod |
| 28 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drafting | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past · passive | the People's Assembly | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | during the year transition | as a interim parliament | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as parliament=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | oversee | gerund | the drafting of a new permanent constitution | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent drafting=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | draft | a new permanent constitution | nom drafting «act transitive»: of=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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