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title: During the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, the city was besieged… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: During the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, the city was besieged and captured by Shahrbaraz in 613 along with a large number of Byzantine troops as prisoners. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 142

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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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During the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, the city was besieged and captured by Shahrbaraz in 613 along with a large number of Byzantine troops as prisoners.

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**What happens:** besiege, capture · **To what, where:** city, 613

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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: 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:142
# text = During the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, the city was besieged and captured by Shahrbaraz in 613 along with a large number of Byzantine troops as prisoners.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Sasanian	Sasanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	602	602	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	628	628	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	besieged	besiege	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Shahrbaraz	Shahrbaraz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	613	613	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
22	along	along	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Byzantine	byzantine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	26	nmod	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **besiege** | past · passive |  | the city |  |  | during the Byzantine  Sasanian War | along a large number of Byzantine troops; as prisoners | tree rules |
| 2 | **capture** | participle |  |  |  | 613 |  | by Shahrbaraz | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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