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title: First settled in the 3rd millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: First settled in the 3rd millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 8

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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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First settled in the 3rd millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750.

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**What happens:** settle, choose · **To what, where:** 3rd millennium, millennium

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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:8
# text = First settled in the 3rd millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
2	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	3rd	3rd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Umayyad	Umayyad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Caliphate	caliphate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	661	661	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	750	750	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past |  |  |  | the 3rd millennium |  | first *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in millennium=Location |
| 2 | **choose** | past · passive |  | millennium |  |  |  | as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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