--- title: From 1864, Tanzimat reforms were applied on Ottoman Syria, carving o… — Syria · tree and pragmatics description: From 1864, Tanzimat reforms were applied on Ottoman Syria, carving out the provinces (vilayets) of Aleppo, Zor, Beirut and Damascus Vilayet; Mutasarrifate of Mount Lebanon was created, and soon after the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem was given a separate status. 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From 1864, Tanzimat reforms were applied on Ottoman Syria, carving out the provinces (vilayets) of Aleppo, Zor, Beirut and Damascus Vilayet; Mutasarrifate of Mount Lebanon was created, and soon after the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem was given a separate status. **What happens:** apply, carve out, create, give · **To what, where:** Tanzimat reforms, 1864, provinces, Mutasarrifate 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:149 # text = From 1864, Tanzimat reforms were applied on Ottoman Syria, carving out the provinces (vilayets) of Aleppo, Zor, Beirut and Damascus Vilayet; Mutasarrifate of Mount Lebanon was created, and soon after the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem was given a separate status. 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1864 1864 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Tanzimat Tanzimat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 reforms reform NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 applied apply VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 Ottoman ottoman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Syria Syria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 carving carve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 provinces province NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 vilayets vilayet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Aleppo Aleppo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Zor Zor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Beirut Beirut PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 Damascus Damascus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 27 Vilayet Vilayet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Mutasarrifate Mutasarrifate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 Mount Mount PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Lebanon Lebanon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 created create VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 37 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 44 advmod _ _ 38 after after SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Mutasarrifate Mutasarrifate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 status status NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **apply** | past · passive | | Tanzimat reforms | | 1864 | | on Ottoman Syria | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on syria=Destination | | 2 | **carve out** | gerund | | the provinces and vilayets of Aleppo and Zor and Damascus | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent province=Theme | | 3 | **create** | past · passive | | Mutasarrifate of Mount Lebanon | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 4 | **give** | past · passive | | the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem | | | | a separate status *obj*; soon *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient status=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Syria/148/) - next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Syria/150/) - ↑ back to [Syria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Syria/)