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title: The Shia Fatimids gained control in 970, inflaming hostilities betwe… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: The Shia Fatimids gained control in 970, inflaming hostilities between them and the city's Sunni Arabs, who frequently revolted. Who acts: Shia, hostilities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 181

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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 Shia Fatimids gained control in 970, inflaming hostilities between them and the city's Sunni Arabs, who frequently revolted.

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**Who acts:** Shia, hostilities · **What happens:** gain, inflame, revolt · **To what, where:** control, hostilities

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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 (Shia, hostilities), 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:181
# text = The Shia Fatimids gained control in 970, inflaming hostilities between them and the city's Sunni Arabs, who frequently revolted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shia	Shia	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Fatimids	fatimid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	970	970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	inflaming	inflame	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	hostilities	hostility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	Sunni	Sunni	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	revolted	revolt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | the Shia | control |  |  |  | in 970; Fatimids *nsubj* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient control=Extent in 970=Attribute |
| 2 | **inflame** | gerund | the Shia *not said here* | hostilities and the city's Sunni Arabs |  |  |  | between Fatimids *= fatimid* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hostility=Experiencer |
| 3 | **revolt** | participle | hostilities and the city's Sunni Arabs |  |  |  |  | frequently *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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