Syria, sentence 503
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 indigenous Assyrians and Western Aramaic-speakers number around 400,000 people, with the Western Aramaic-speakers living mainly in the villages of Maaloula, Jubb'adin and Bakh'a, while the Assyrians mainly reside in the north and northeast (Homs, Aleppo, Qamishli, Hasakah).
Who acts: Western Aramaic speakers, indigenous Assyrians · What happens: live, reside · To what, where: villages, north
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 (Western Aramaic speakers, indigenous Assyrians), 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 Assyrians | det |
| 2 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Assyrians | amod |
| 3 | Assyrians | Assyrian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 36 reside | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 number | cc |
| 5 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 number | amod |
| 6 | Aramaic | Aramaic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 number | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Aramaic | punct |
| 8 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 number | compound |
| 9 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Assyrians | conj |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 11 | 400,000 | 400,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 people | nummod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 number | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 speakers | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 speakers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 speakers | det |
| 16 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 speakers | amod |
| 17 | Aramaic | Aramaic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 speakers | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Aramaic | punct |
| 19 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 people | nmod |
| 20 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 speakers | acl |
| 21 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 20 living | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 villages | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 villages | det |
| 24 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 living | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Maaloula | case |
| 26 | Maaloula | Maaloula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 villages | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Jubb'adin | punct |
| 28 | Jubb'adin | Jubb'adin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Maaloula | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Bakh'a | cc |
| 30 | Bakh'a | Bakh'a | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Maaloula | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Assyrians | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 Assyrians | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Assyrians | det |
| 34 | Assyrians | Assyrian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Assyrians | conj |
| 35 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 36 reside | advmod |
| 36 | reside | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 north | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 north | det |
| 39 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 reside | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 northeast | cc |
| 41 | northeast | northeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 north | conj |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 Homs | punct |
| 43 | Homs | Homs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 northeast | appos |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Aleppo | punct |
| 45 | Aleppo | Aleppo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Homs | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Qamishli | punct |
| 47 | Qamishli | Qamishli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Homs | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Hasakah | punct |
| 49 | Hasakah | Hasakah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Homs | conj |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 Homs | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 reside | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | the Western Aramaic speakers not said here | the villages of Maaloula and Jubb'adin and Bakh'a | mainly property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | |||
| 2 | reside | present | the indigenous Assyrians and Western Aramaic speakers number around 400,000 people with the Western Aramaic speakers and the Assyrians | the north and northeast | mainly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Location |
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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