Syria, sentence 447

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.

Prior to the war the government hoped to attract new investment in the tourism, natural gas, and service sectors to diversify its economy and reduce its dependence on oil and agriculture.

Who acts: government, service sectors · What happens: hope, attract, diversify, reduce · To what, where: new investment, tourism, economy, dependence, oil

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 (government, service sectors), 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	Prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	4 war	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 Prior	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 war	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hoped	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 government	det
6	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hoped	nsubj
7	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 attract	mark
9	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hoped	xcomp
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 investment	amod
11	investment	investment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attract	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 tourism	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tourism	det
14	tourism	tourism	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attract	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gas	punct
16	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gas	amod
17	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tourism	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 diversify	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 diversify	cc
20	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sectors	compound
21	sectors	sector	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 diversify	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 diversify	mark
23	diversify	diversify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hoped	conj
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 economy	nmod:poss
25	economy	economy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 diversify	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 reduce	cc
27	reduce	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 diversify	conj
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dependence	nmod:poss
29	dependence	dependence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reduce	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 oil	case
31	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reduce	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 agriculture	cc
33	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 oil	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hoped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hope	past	the government			prior the war	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	attract not said to happen	to-infinitive	the government not said here	new investment	the tourism and natural gas		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent investment=Patient
3	diversify	to-infinitive	service sectors	sector's economy			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent economy=Patient
4	reduce	infinitive	service sectors not said here	economy's dependence	oil and agriculture		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer dependence=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.

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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Syria, sentence 447