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title: Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām and dubbed, poetically, the "C… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine" (مَدِيْنَةُ الْيَاسْمِينِ), Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world. Who acts: Damascus. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 3

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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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Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine" (مَدِيْنَةُ الْيَاسْمِينِ), Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world.

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**Who acts:** Damascus · **What happens:** know, dub, be · **To what, where:** Syria, major cultural center

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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 (Damascus), 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:3
# text = Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine" (مَدِيْنَةُ الْيَاسْمِينِ), Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world.
1	Known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	colloquially	colloquially	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	aš	aš	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Šām	Šām	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dubbed	dub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	poetically	poetically	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Jasmine	Jasmine	PROPN	NNP	_	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	مَدِيْنَةُ	مَدِيْنَةُ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	الْيَاسْمِينِ	الْيَاسْمِينِ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Levant	Levant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  | Syria |  | as aš Šām and the City of Jasmine; colloquially *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as šām=Attribute |
| 2 | **dub** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Damascus | a major cultural center |  |  |  | of the Levant and the Arab world | tree rules |

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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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