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title: In the late 1970s, an Islamist uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood wa… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: In the late 1970s, an Islamist uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood was aimed against the government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 224

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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 the late 1970s, an Islamist uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood was aimed against the government.

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**What happens:** aim · **To what, where:** Islamist uprising, late 1970s

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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:224
# text = In the late 1970s, an Islamist uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood was aimed against the government.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Islamist	Islamist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	uprising	uprising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Brotherhood	Brotherhood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aim** | past · passive |  | a Islamist uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood |  | the late 1970s |  | against the government | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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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