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title: In 1920, a short-lived independent Kingdom of Syria was established… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1920, a short-lived independent Kingdom of Syria was established under Faisal I of the Hashemite family. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 158

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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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In 1920, a short-lived independent Kingdom of Syria was established under Faisal I of the Hashemite family.

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**What happens:** live, establish · **To what, where:** lived independent Kingdom, 1920

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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: 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:158
# text = In 1920, a short-lived independent Kingdom of Syria was established under Faisal I of the Hashemite family.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	amod	_	_
8	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Faisal	Faisal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Hashemite	Hashemite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | past · passive |  | a lived independent Kingdom of Syria |  | 1920 |  | under Faisal; of the Hashemite family; I *nsubj* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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