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title: Twelvers primarily live near the Shia holy sites of Sayyidah Ruqayya… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: Twelvers primarily live near the Shia holy sites of Sayyidah Ruqayya and Sayyidah Zaynab. Who acts: Twelvers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 350

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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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Twelvers primarily live near the Shia holy sites of Sayyidah Ruqayya and Sayyidah Zaynab.

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**Who acts:** Twelvers · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** holy sites

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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 (Twelvers), 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:350
# text = Twelvers primarily live near the Shia holy sites of Sayyidah Ruqayya and Sayyidah Zaynab.
1	Twelvers	twelver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Shia	Shia	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Sayyidah	Sayyidah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Ruqayya	Ruqayya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Sayyidah	Sayyidah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	Zaynab	Zaynab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Twelvers |  |  | holy sites  the Shia of Sayyidah and Sayyidah |  | primarily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near site=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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