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title: The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Grand Mosque of Damascus, is o… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Grand Mosque of Damascus, is one of the largest mosques in the world and also one of the oldest sites of continuous prayer since the rise of Islam. Who acts: Umayyad Mosque, Islam. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 374

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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 Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Grand Mosque of Damascus, is one of the largest mosques in the world and also one of the oldest sites of continuous prayer since the rise of Islam.

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**Who acts:** Umayyad Mosque, Islam · **What happens:** know, be, rise · **To what, where:** Umayyad Mosque, one

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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 (Umayyad Mosque, Islam), 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:374
# text = The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Grand Mosque of Damascus, is one of the largest mosques in the world and also one of the oldest sites of continuous prayer since the rise of Islam.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Umayyad	Umayyad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Mosque	Mosque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Mosque	Mosque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	mosques	mosque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	continuous	continuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	since	since	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | the Umayyad Mosque *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Grand Mosque of Damascus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as mosque=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Umayyad Mosque | one |  |  |  | of the largest mosques in the world | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** |  | Islam |  |  |  |  |  | nom rise «event intransitive»: of=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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