Syria, sentence 82
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.
Assyrian domination ended after the Assyrians greatly weakened themselves in a series of brutal internal civil wars, followed by attacks from: the Medes, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Persians, Scythians and Cimmerians.
Who acts: Assyrian domination, Assyrians · What happens: end, weaken, follow · To what, where: Assyrians, series, brutal internal civil wars
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 (Assyrian domination, Assyrians), 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 | Assyrian | assyrian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 domination | compound |
| 2 | domination | domination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ended | nsubj |
| 3 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 weakened | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Assyrians | det |
| 6 | Assyrians | Assyrian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 weakened | nsubj |
| 7 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 8 weakened | advmod |
| 8 | weakened | weaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ended | advcl |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 weakened | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 series | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 series | det |
| 12 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weakened | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wars | case |
| 14 | brutal | brutal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wars | amod |
| 15 | internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wars | amod |
| 16 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wars | amod |
| 17 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 series | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 followed | punct |
| 19 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 wars | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 attacks | case |
| 21 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 followed | obl:agent |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Medes | case |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 from | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Medes | det |
| 25 | Medes | Mede | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 attacks | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Babylonians | punct |
| 27 | Babylonians | Babylonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Medes | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Chaldeans | punct |
| 29 | Chaldeans | Chaldean | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Medes | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Persians | punct |
| 31 | Persians | Persian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Medes | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Scythians | punct |
| 33 | Scythians | Scythian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Medes | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Cimmerians | cc |
| 35 | Cimmerians | Cimmerian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Medes | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | Assyrian domination | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | weaken | past | the Assyrians | Assyrians = assyrian | a series of brutal internal civil wars | greatly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||
| 3 | follow | participle | brutal internal civil wars not said here | attacks from the Medes and Babylonians and Chaldeans and Persians and Scythians and Cimmerians obl:agent | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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