Syria, sentence 94
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.
Eventually parts of southern Seleucid Syria were taken by the Jewish Hasmonean dynasty upon the slow disintegration of the Hellenistic Empire.
Who acts: Jewish Hasmonean dynasty · What happens: take, disintegrate · To what, where: parts, Hellenistic Empire
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 (Jewish Hasmonean dynasty), 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 | Eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 8 taken | advmod |
| 2 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Syria | case |
| 4 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Syria | amod |
| 5 | Seleucid | Seleucid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Syria | compound |
| 6 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 parts | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 dynasty | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dynasty | det |
| 11 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dynasty | amod |
| 12 | Hasmonean | Hasmonean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dynasty | compound |
| 13 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 disintegration | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 disintegration | det |
| 16 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 disintegration | amod |
| 17 | disintegration | disintegration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dynasty | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Empire | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Empire | det |
| 20 | Hellenistic | Hellenistic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Empire | compound |
| 21 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 disintegration | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the Jewish Hasmonean dynasty upon the slow disintegration of the Hellenistic Empire | parts of southern Seleucid Syria | eventually property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | disintegrate | the Hellenistic Empire | nom disintegration «state transitive»: of=patient |
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