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title: The Qumranic Darmeśeq (דרמשק), and Darmsûq in Syriac, meaning "a wel… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: The Qumranic Darmeśeq (דרמשק), and Darmsûq in Syriac, meaning "a well-watered land". Who acts: Darmsûq. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 20

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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 Qumranic Darmeśeq (דרמשק), and Darmsûq in Syriac, meaning "a well-watered land".

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**Who acts:** Darmsûq · **What happens:** mean, water · **To what, where:** watered land, Qumranic Darmeśeq · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Darmsûq), 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:20
# text = The Qumranic Darmeśeq (דרמשק), and Darmsûq in Syriac, meaning "a well-watered land".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Qumranic	Qumranic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Darmeśeq	Darmeśeq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	דרמשק	דרמשק	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Darmsûq	Darmsûq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Syriac	Syriac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	watered	water	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | gerund | Darmsûq in Syriac *not said here* | a watered land |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
| 2 | **water** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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