Syria, sentence 61
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.
Yamhad (modern Aleppo) dominated northern Syria for two centuries, although eastern Syria was occupied in the 19th and 18th centuries BC by the Old Assyrian Empire ruled by the Amorite dynasty of Shamshi-Adad I, and by the Babylonian Empire which was founded by Amorites.
Who acts: Yamhad, Old Assyrian Empire, Amorites · What happens: dominate, occupy, rule, found · To what, where: northern Syria, eastern Syria
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 (Yamhad, Old Assyrian Empire, Amorites), 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 | Yamhad | Yamhad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dominated | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 Aleppo | punct |
| 3 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Aleppo | amod |
| 4 | Aleppo | Aleppo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yamhad | appos |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 Aleppo | punct |
| 6 | dominated | dominate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Syria | amod |
| 8 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dominated | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 centuries | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 centuries | nummod |
| 11 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dominated | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 occupied | punct |
| 13 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 17 occupied | mark |
| 14 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Syria | amod |
| 15 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 occupied | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 occupied | aux:pass |
| 17 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dominated | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 centuries | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 centuries | det |
| 20 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 23 centuries | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 18th | cc |
| 22 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 20 19th | conj |
| 23 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 occupied | obl |
| 24 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 centuries | appos |
| 25 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 ruled | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Empire | det |
| 27 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Empire | amod |
| 28 | Assyrian | Assyrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Empire | compound |
| 29 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ruled | nsubj |
| 30 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 occupied | parataxis |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 dynasty | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 dynasty | det |
| 33 | Amorite | Amorite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 dynasty | compound |
| 34 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ruled | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Shamshi | case |
| 36 | Shamshi | Shamshi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 dynasty | nmod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 Adad | punct |
| 38 | Adad | Adad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Shamshi | conj |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 ruled | nsubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 founded | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 founded | cc |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 Empire | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Empire | det |
| 44 | Babylonian | Babylonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Empire | compound |
| 45 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 founded | obl |
| 46 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 founded | aux:pass |
| 48 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dominated | conj |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 50 Amorites | case |
| 50 | Amorites | Amorite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 48 founded | obl:agent |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dominated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dominate | past | Yamhad | northern Syria | century | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme syria=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | occupy | past · passive | eastern Syria | century | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | rule | past | the Old Assyrian Empire | by the Amorite dynasty of Shamshi and Adad; I nsubj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | found | past · passive | Amorites | by the Babylonian Empire; which nsubj:pass | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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.
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