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title: Beit al-Mamlouka, a 17th-century Damascene house, serving as a luxur… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: Beit al-Mamlouka, a 17th-century Damascene house, serving as a luxury boutique hotel within the old city since 2005. Who acts: 17th century, Beit. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 448

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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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Beit al-Mamlouka, a 17th-century Damascene house, serving as a luxury boutique hotel within the old city since 2005.

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**Who acts:** 17th century, Beit · **What happens:** house, serve · **To what, where:** Beit

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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 (17th century, Beit), 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:448
# text = Beit al-Mamlouka, a 17th-century Damascene house, serving as a luxury boutique hotel within the old city since 2005.
1	Beit	Beit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Mamlouka	Mamlouka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	17th	17th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Damascene	Damascene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	luxury	luxury	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	boutique	boutique	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	within	within	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	since	since	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **house** |  | a 17th century |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | gerund | Beit *not said here* |  |  |  | since 2005 | as a luxury boutique hotel; within the old city | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as hotel=Attribute |

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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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