Syria, sentence 589
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.
Contemporary Syrian literature also encompasses science fiction and futuristic utopiae (Nuhad Sharif, Talib Umran), which may also serve as media of dissent.
Who acts: Contemporary Syrian literature, futuristic utopiae · What happens: encompass, serve · To what, where: science fiction
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 (Contemporary Syrian literature, futuristic utopiae), 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 | Contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 literature | amod |
| 2 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 literature | amod |
| 3 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 encompasses | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 encompasses | advmod |
| 5 | encompasses | encompass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fiction | compound |
| 7 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 encompasses | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 utopiae | cc |
| 9 | futuristic | futuristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 utopiae | amod |
| 10 | utopiae | utopiae | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fiction | conj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sharif | punct |
| 12 | Nuhad | Nuhad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sharif | compound |
| 13 | Sharif | Sharif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 utopiae | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Talib | punct |
| 15 | Talib | Talib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sharif | conj |
| 16 | Umran | Umran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Talib | flat |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sharif | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 serve | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 serve | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 serve | aux |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 serve | advmod |
| 22 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 utopiae | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 media | case |
| 24 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 serve | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dissent | case |
| 26 | dissent | dissent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 media | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 encompasses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encompass | present | Contemporary Syrian literature | science fiction and futuristic utopiae | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fiction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | serve | may | futuristic utopiae | as media of dissent | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as media=Attribute |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Syria/589/