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title: The former handed over control of the Damascus area to the latter in… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: The former handed over control of the Damascus area to the latter in 1259 BC. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 75

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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 former handed over control of the Damascus area to the latter in 1259 BC.

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**What happens:** hand · **To what, where:** former handed control

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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: 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:75
# text = The former handed over control of the Damascus area to the latter in 1259 BC.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1259	1259	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
15	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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