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title: The city saw its importance decline throughout the Abbasid era, only… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: The city saw its importance decline throughout the Abbasid era, only to regain significant importance in the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 11

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From Wikipedia, [«Damascus»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The city saw its importance decline throughout the Abbasid era, only to regain significant importance in the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** see, regain, decline · **To what, where:** importance decline, significant importance, Ayyubid

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Damascus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Damascus:11
# text = The city saw its importance decline throughout the Abbasid era, only to regain significant importance in the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	importance	importance	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Abbasid	Abbasid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	era	era	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	regain	regain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Ayyubid	Ayyubid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Mamluk	Mamluk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	periods	period	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the city | city's importance decline |  |  | throughout the Abbasid era |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer decline=Stimulus |
| 2 | **regain** | to-infinitive | the city *not said here* | significant importance |  | the Ayyubid and Mamluk and Ottoman periods |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent importance=Theme |
| 3 | **decline** |  | city |  |  |  |  |  | nom decline «process intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Damascus», 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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