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title: In 1164, King Amalric of Jerusalem invaded Fatimid Egypt, requested… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1164, King Amalric of Jerusalem invaded Fatimid Egypt, requested help from Nur ad-Din. Who acts: King Amalric. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 224

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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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In 1164, King Amalric of Jerusalem invaded Fatimid Egypt, requested help from Nur ad-Din.

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**Who acts:** King Amalric · **What happens:** invade, request · **To what, where:** Fatimid, 1164

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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 (King Amalric), 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:224
# text = In 1164, King Amalric of Jerusalem invaded Fatimid Egypt, requested help from Nur ad-Din.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1164	1164	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Amalric	Amalric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Fatimid	Fatimid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	requested	request	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ad	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Din	Din	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** | past | King Amalric of Jerusalem | Fatimid |  | 1164 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **request** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S\_INF»: 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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