Syria, sentence 71
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 Egyptians fought the Hittites for control over western Syria; the fighting reached its zenith in 1274 BC with the Battle of Kadesh.
Who acts: Egyptians, fighting · What happens: fight, reach · To what, where: Hittites, zenith, 1274
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 (Egyptians, fighting), 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 | 2 Egyptians | det |
| 2 | Egyptians | Egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 fought | nsubj |
| 3 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hittites | det |
| 5 | Hittites | Hittite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 fought | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 control | case |
| 7 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fought | obl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 Syria | case |
| 9 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Syria | amod |
| 10 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 control | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fighting | det |
| 13 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fought | conj |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 zenith | nmod:poss |
| 16 | zenith | zenith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1274 | case |
| 18 | 1274 | 1274 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 reached | obl |
| 19 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 1274 | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Battle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Battle | det |
| 22 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Kadesh | case |
| 24 | Kadesh | Kadesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Battle | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | the Egyptians | the Hittites | for control over western Syria | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hittite=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | reach | past | the fighting | fighting's zenith | 1274 BC | with the Battle of Kadesh | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent zenith=Theme |
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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