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title: The green line will be an essential west–east axis for the future pu… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: The green line will be an essential west–east axis for the future public transportation network, serving Moadamiyeh, Sumariyeh, Mezzeh, Damascus University, Hijaz, the Old City, Abbassiyeen and Qaboun Pullman bus station. Who acts: green line. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency
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# Damascus, sentence 493

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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 green line will be an essential west–east axis for the future public transportation network, serving Moadamiyeh, Sumariyeh, Mezzeh, Damascus University, Hijaz, the Old City, Abbassiyeen and Qaboun Pullman bus station.

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**Who acts:** green line · **What happens:** be, serve · **To what, where:** essential east axis, Moadamiyeh bus station

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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 (green line), 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:493
# text = The green line will be an essential west–east axis for the future public transportation network, serving Moadamiyeh, Sumariyeh, Mezzeh, Damascus University, Hijaz, the Old City, Abbassiyeen and Qaboun Pullman bus station.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	essential	essential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	axis	axis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	transportation	transportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
20	Moadamiyeh	Moadamiyeh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Sumariyeh	Sumariyeh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Mezzeh	Mezzeh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Hijaz	Hijaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Abbassiyeen	Abbassiyeen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Qaboun	Qaboun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
38	Pullman	Pullman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	_
39	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | future | the green line | a essential east axis |  |  |  | for the future public transportation network | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | gerund | the green line *not said here* | Moadamiyeh bus station |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=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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