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title: The Umayyad dynasty was overthrown in 750 by the Abbasid dynasty, wh… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Umayyad dynasty was overthrown in 750 by the Abbasid dynasty, which moved the capital of empire to Baghdad. Who acts: Abbasid dynasty. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 122

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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 Umayyad dynasty was overthrown in 750 by the Abbasid dynasty, which moved the capital of empire to Baghdad.

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**Who acts:** Abbasid dynasty · **What happens:** overthrow, move · **To what, where:** Umayyad dynasty, 750, capital, Baghdad

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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 (Abbasid dynasty), 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:122
# text = The Umayyad dynasty was overthrown in 750 by the Abbasid dynasty, which moved the capital of empire to Baghdad.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Umayyad	Umayyad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	750	750	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Abbasid	Abbasid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overthrow** | past · passive | the Abbasid dynasty | the Umayyad dynasty |  | 750 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | past | the Abbasid dynasty | the capital of empire | Baghdad |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent capital=Theme to baghdad=Result |

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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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