Syria, sentence 537
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.
As per one estimate, the count of Christians affiliated with established denominations in Syria has dropped from approximately 2.5 million prior to the civil war, to about 500,000 in 2023.
What happens: affiliate, establish, drop · To what, where: count, Syria, civil war
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.
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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 estimate | case |
| 2 | per | per | ADP | _ | 4 estimate | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 estimate | nummod |
| 4 | estimate | estimate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dropped | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 estimate | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 count | det |
| 7 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Christians | case |
| 9 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 count | nmod |
| 10 | affiliated | affiliate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 count | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 denominations | case |
| 12 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 denominations | amod |
| 13 | denominations | denomination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 affiliated | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Syria | case |
| 15 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 affiliated | obl |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dropped | aux |
| 17 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 war | case |
| 19 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 21 million | advmod |
| 20 | 2.5 | 2.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 million | compound |
| 21 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 war | nsubj |
| 22 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 26 war | case |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 prior | fixed |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 war | det |
| 25 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 war | amod |
| 26 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dropped | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 500,000 | punct |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 500,000 | case |
| 29 | about | about | ADV | _ | 30 500,000 | advmod |
| 30 | 500,000 | 500,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 dropped | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 2023 | case |
| 32 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 500,000 | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affiliate | participle | the count of Christians not said here | Syria | with established denominations | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with denomination=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | establish | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | drop | present · perfect · passive | the count of Christians | the civil war | as one estimate; to 500,000 in 2023 | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from war=Destination to 500,000=Initial_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.
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