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title: Soon after the massacre, the Crusaders aimed to take advantage of th… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after the massacre, the Crusaders aimed to take advantage of the unstable situation and launch an assault against Damascus with nearly 2,000 knights and 10,000 infantry. Who acts: Crusaders. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 210

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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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Soon after the massacre, the Crusaders aimed to take advantage of the unstable situation and launch an assault against Damascus with nearly 2,000 knights and 10,000 infantry.

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**Who acts:** Crusaders · **What happens:** aim, take, launch · **To what, where:** advantage, assault

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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 (Crusaders), 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:210
# text = Soon after the massacre, the Crusaders aimed to take advantage of the unstable situation and launch an assault against Damascus with nearly 2,000 knights and 10,000 infantry.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	massacre	massacre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Crusaders	crusader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	aimed	aim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	unstable	unstable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	launch	launch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	assault	assault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	infantry	infantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aim** | past | the Crusaders |  |  |  | after the massacre |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Crusaders *not said here* | advantage |  |  |  | of the unstable situation | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme of situation=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **launch** | infinitive | the Crusaders *not said here* | a assault |  |  |  | against Damascus; with 2,000 knights and 10,000 infantry | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent assault=Theme against damascus=Destination |

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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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