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title: The city's growth rate is higher than in Syria as a whole, primarily… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: The city's growth rate is higher than in Syria as a whole, primarily due to rural-urban migration and the influx of young Syrian migrants drawn by employment and educational opportunities. Who acts: growth rate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 340

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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 city's growth rate is higher than in Syria as a whole, primarily due to rural-urban migration and the influx of young Syrian migrants drawn by employment and educational opportunities.

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**Who acts:** growth rate · **What happens:** be, draw · **To what, where:** young Syrian migrants

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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 (growth rate), 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:340
# text = The city's growth rate is higher than in Syria as a whole, primarily due to rural-urban migration and the influx of young Syrian migrants drawn by employment and educational opportunities.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
16	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	influx	influx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	migrants	migrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	educational	educational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	opportunities	opportunity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the city's growth rate |  |  |  |  | than Syria; as a whole; due rural urban migration and the influx of young Syrian migrants; high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  | young Syrian migrants *not said here* |  |  |  | by employment and educational opportunities | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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