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title: With these successions, the status of Damascus was gradually weakeni… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: With these successions, the status of Damascus was gradually weakening, as Suleiman chose Ramla as his residence and Hisham chose Resafa. Who acts: status, Suleiman, residence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 164

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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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With these successions, the status of Damascus was gradually weakening, as Suleiman chose Ramla as his residence and Hisham chose Resafa.

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**Who acts:** status, Suleiman, residence · **What happens:** weaken, choose · **To what, where:** Ramla, Resafa

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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 (status, Suleiman, residence), 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:164
# text = With these successions, the status of Damascus was gradually weakening, as Suleiman chose Ramla as his residence and Hisham chose Resafa.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	successions	succession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	weakening	weaken	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	Ramla	Ramla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Hisham	Hisham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
23	Resafa	Resafa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weaken** | past · progressive | the status of Damascus |  |  |  |  | with this successions; gradually *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with succession=Instrument |
| 2 | **choose** | past | Suleiman | Ramla |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ramla=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | past | status's residence and Hisham | Resafa |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resafa=Theme |

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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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