Syria, sentence 80

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.

This language was to remain dominant in Syria and the entire Near East until after the Islamic conquest in the 7th and 8th centuries AD, and was to be a vehicle for the spread of Christianity.

Who acts: language · What happens: remain, be, spread · To what, where: vehicle, Christianity

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 (language), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 language	det
2	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 vehicle	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 vehicle	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 remain	mark
5	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 was	xcomp
6	dominant	dominant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 remain	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Syria	case
8	Syria	Syria	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dominant	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 entire	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 entire	det
11	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dominant	conj
12	Near	near	ADP	_	13 East	case
13	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 entire	obl
14	until	until	ADP	_	18 conquest	case
15	after	after	ADP	_	18 conquest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 conquest	det
17	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 conquest	compound
18	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entire	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	24 centuries	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 centuries	det
21	7th	7th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	24 centuries	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 8th	cc
23	8th	8th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	21 7th	conj
24	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 conquest	nmod
25	AD	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 conquest	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 vehicle	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 vehicle	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 vehicle	cop
29	to	to	PART	_	32 vehicle	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 vehicle	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 vehicle	det
32	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 spread	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 spread	det
35	spread	spread	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 vehicle	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Christianity	case
37	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 spread	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 vehicle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remain	to-infinitive	this language not said here		dominant property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	this language	a vehicle	for the spread of Christianity	tree rules
3	spread			Christianity		nom spread «event transitive»: of=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.

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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Syria, sentence 80