Syria, sentence 464
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.
In addition, ISIS was closing in on Shaer gas field and three other facilities in the area—Hayan, Jihar and Ebla—with the loss of these western gas fields having the potential to cause Iran to further subsidize the Syrian government.
Who acts: ISIS, western gas fields, Iran · What happens: close in, have, cause, subsidize · To what, where: addition, potential, Iran, Syrian government
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 (ISIS, western gas fields, Iran), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 addition | case |
| 2 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closing | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 addition | punct |
| 4 | ISIS | ISIS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 closing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 closing | aux |
| 6 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 closing | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 field | case |
| 9 | Shaer | Shaer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 field | compound |
| 10 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 field | compound |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closing | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 facilities | cc |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 facilities | nummod |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 facilities | amod |
| 15 | facilities | facility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 field | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 area | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 area | det |
| 18 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 facilities | nmod |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hayan | punct |
| 20 | Hayan | Hayan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 area | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Jihar | punct |
| 22 | Jihar | Jihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Hayan | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Ebla | cc |
| 24 | Ebla | Ebla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Hayan | conj |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 loss | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 loss | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 loss | det |
| 28 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closing | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 fields | case |
| 30 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 fields | nsubj |
| 31 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 fields | amod |
| 32 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fields | compound |
| 33 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 loss | nmod |
| 34 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 fields | acl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 potential | det |
| 36 | potential | potential | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 having | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 cause | mark |
| 38 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 having | advcl |
| 39 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 cause | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 subsidize | mark |
| 41 | further | further | ADV | _ | 42 subsidize | advmod |
| 42 | subsidize | subsidize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 cause | xcomp |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 government | det |
| 44 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 government | amod |
| 45 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 subsidize | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 closing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close in | past · progressive | ISIS | addition | on Shaer gas field and three other facilities in the area; with the loss of western gas fields these | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with loss=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | western gas fields these not said here | the potential | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potential=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cause | to-infinitive | western gas fields these not said here | Iran | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | subsidize | to-infinitive | Iran not said here | the Syrian government | further property | tree rules |
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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