Syria, sentence 388
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 Syrian government continues to demand the return of this territory.
Who acts: Syrian government, territory · What happens: continue, demand, return · To what, where: return
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 (Syrian government, territory), 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 | 3 government | det |
| 2 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 government | amod |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 continues | nsubj |
| 4 | continues | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 demand | mark |
| 6 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 continues | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 return | det |
| 8 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 demand | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 territory | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 territory | det |
| 11 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 return | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 continues | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | present | the Syrian government | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | to-infinitive | the Syrian government not said here | the return of this territory | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme return=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | return | this territory | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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.
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