Syria, sentence 97
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.
Syria prospered under Roman rule, being strategically located on the Silk Road, which gave it massive wealth and importance, making it the battleground for the rivaling Romans and Persians.
Who acts: Syria · What happens: prosper, locate, give, make · To what, where: Roman rule, Silk Road, control
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 (Syria), 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 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 prospered | nsubj |
| 2 | prospered | prosper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 rule | case |
| 4 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rule | amod |
| 5 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prospered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 located | punct |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 located | aux:pass |
| 8 | strategically | strategically | ADV | _ | 9 located | advmod |
| 9 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 prospered | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Road | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Road | det |
| 12 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Road | compound |
| 13 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 located | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 located | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | obj |
| 18 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wealth | amod |
| 19 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 importance | cc |
| 21 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wealth | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 making | punct |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 gave | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 making | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 battleground | det |
| 26 | battleground | battleground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 rivaling | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rivaling | det |
| 29 | rivaling | rivaling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | obl |
| 30 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 rivaling | appos |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Persians | cc |
| 32 | Persians | Persian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 Romans | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prospered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prosper | past | Syria | Roman rule | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rule=Location | ||||
| 2 | locate | gerund · passive | Syria not said here | the Silk Road | strategically property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | past | control | which nsubj; massive wealth and importance obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient wealth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | control | for the rivaling; the battleground obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary battleground=Product for rivaling=Asset |
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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