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title: The matriarch of the family and empress of Rome as wife of emperor S… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: The matriarch of the family and empress of Rome as wife of emperor Septimius Severus was Julia Domna, a Syrian from the city of Emesa (modern day Homs), whose family held hereditary rights to the priesthood of the god El-Gabal. Who acts: matriarch, family. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its 
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# Syria, sentence 108

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From Wikipedia, [«Syria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria), 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 matriarch of the family and empress of Rome as wife of emperor Septimius Severus was Julia Domna, a Syrian from the city of Emesa (modern day Homs), whose family held hereditary rights to the priesthood of the god El-Gabal.

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**Who acts:** matriarch, family · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** Julia, hereditary rights

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Syria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matriarch, family), 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:Syria:108
# text = The matriarch of the family and empress of Rome as wife of emperor Septimius Severus was Julia Domna, a Syrian from the city of Emesa (modern day Homs), whose family held hereditary rights to the priesthood of the god El-Gabal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	matriarch	matriarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	empress	empress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Septimius	Septimius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	Severus	Severus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	Julia	Julia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	Domna	Domna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Emesa	Emesa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Homs	Homs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
36	hereditary	hereditary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	priesthood	priesthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	god	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Gabal	Gabal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the matriarch of the family and empress of Rome as wife of emperor | Julia |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | past | family | hereditary rights |  |  |  | to the priesthood of the god | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=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, «Syria», 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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