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title: The Prophet Muhammad's first indirect interaction with the people of… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prophet Muhammad's first indirect interaction with the people of Damascus was when he sent a letter, through his companion Shiya ibn Wahab, to Harith ibn Abi Shamir, the king of Damascus. Who acts: first indirect interaction, Prophet Muhammad. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its depend
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# Damascus, sentence 144

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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 Prophet Muhammad's first indirect interaction with the people of Damascus was when he sent a letter, through his companion Shiya ibn Wahab, to Harith ibn Abi Shamir, the king of Damascus.

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**Who acts:** first indirect interaction, Prophet Muhammad · **What happens:** be, interact · **To what, where:** ibn Abi, companion

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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 (first indirect interaction, Prophet Muhammad), 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:144
# text = The Prophet Muhammad's first indirect interaction with the people of Damascus was when he sent a letter, through his companion Shiya ibn Wahab, to Harith ibn Abi Shamir, the king of Damascus.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Muhammad	Muhammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
6	indirect	indirect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	interaction	interaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	Shiya	Shiya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	ibn	Ibn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	Wahab	Wahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	Harith	Harith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	ibn	Ibn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Abi	Abi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
31	Shamir	Shamir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Prophet Muhammad's first indirect interaction with the people of Damascus |  | ibn Abi | Damascus's companion |  | Damascus *nsubj*; a letter *obj*; send *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **interact** |  | the Prophet Muhammad |  |  |  |  | with the people of Damascus | nom interaction «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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