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title: Ghazan then retreated with most of his forces in February, probably… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: Ghazan then retreated with most of his forces in February, probably because the Mongol horses needed fodder, and left behind about 10,000 horsemen under the Mongol general Mulay. Who acts: Ghazan, Mongol horses. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 258

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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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Ghazan then retreated with most of his forces in February, probably because the Mongol horses needed fodder, and left behind about 10,000 horsemen under the Mongol general Mulay.

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**Who acts:** Ghazan, Mongol horses · **What happens:** retreat, need, leave · **To what, where:** fodder, 10,000 horsemen

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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 (Ghazan, Mongol horses), 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:258
# text = Ghazan then retreated with most of his forces in February, probably because the Mongol horses needed fodder, and left behind about 10,000 horsemen under the Mongol general Mulay.
1	Ghazan	Ghazan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	retreated	retreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Mongol	Mongol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	fodder	fodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	Mongol	Mongol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	general	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:desc	_	_
30	Mulay	Mulay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retreat** | past | Ghazan |  |  |  | then | with Ghazan's most forces in February | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **need** | past | the Mongol horses | fodder |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fodder=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | participle | Ghazan *not said here* |  |  | 10,000 horsemen under the Mongol Mulay  general |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind horseman=Location |

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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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