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title: Under Ezron's grandson, Ben-Hadad I (880–841 BC), and his successor… — Damascus · tree and pragmatics
description: Under Ezron's grandson, Ben-Hadad I (880–841 BC), and his successor Hazael, Damascus annexed Bashan (modern-day Hauran region), and went on the offensive with Israel. Who acts: Ben Hadad. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Damascus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Damascus, sentence 95

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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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Under Ezron's grandson, Ben-Hadad I (880–841 BC), and his successor Hazael, Damascus annexed Bashan (modern-day Hauran region), and went on the offensive with Israel.

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**Who acts:** Ben Hadad · **What happens:** annex, go · **To what, where:** Bashan, grandson, offensive

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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 (Ben Hadad), 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:95
# text = Under Ezron's grandson, Ben-Hadad I (880–841 BC), and his successor Hazael, Damascus annexed Bashan (modern-day Hauran region), and went on the offensive with Israel.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Ezron	Ezron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Hadad	Hadad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	appos	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	880	880	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	841	841	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
14	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	Hazael	Hazael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	annexed	annex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	Bashan	Bashan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	Hauran	Hauran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	offensive	offensive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **annex** | past | Ben Hadad | Bashan |  | Ezron's grandson |  | Ezron's successor *nsubj* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bashan=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Ben Hadad *not said here* |  |  | the offensive |  | with Israel | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with israel=Beneficiary |

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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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