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title: He returned to Syria in 1937 after the signing of the Syrian-French… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: He returned to Syria in 1937 after the signing of the Syrian-French Treaty. Who acts: Atrash. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 168

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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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He returned to Syria in 1937 after the signing of the Syrian-French Treaty.

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**Who acts:** Atrash · **What happens:** return, sign · **To what, where:** Syria, 1937, Syrian French Treaty

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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 (Atrash), 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:168
# text = He returned to Syria in 1937 after the signing of the Syrian-French Treaty.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1937	1937	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	signing	signing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Atrash |  | Syria | 1937 | after the signing of the Syrian French Treaty |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to syria=Result |
| 2 | **sign** |  |  | the Syrian French Treaty |  |  |  |  | nom signing «communication transitive»: of=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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