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title: These negotiations failed, and there have been no further direct Syr… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: These negotiations failed, and there have been no further direct Syrian-Israeli talks since Assad's meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton in Geneva in 2000. Who acts: negotiations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 230

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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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These negotiations failed, and there have been no further direct Syrian-Israeli talks since Assad's meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton in Geneva in 2000.

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**Who acts:** negotiations · **What happens:** fail, be · **To what, where:** 2000, direct Israeli talks

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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 (negotiations), 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:230
# text = These negotiations failed, and there have been no further direct Syrian-Israeli talks since Assad's meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton in Geneva in 2000.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	negotiations	negotiation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
9	no	no	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
11	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Israeli	Israeli	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	talks	talk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	since	since	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Assad	Assad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	Clinton	Clinton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Geneva	Geneva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | past | this negotiations |  |  | 2000 |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in 2000=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | direct Israeli talks |  |  | since Assad's meeting with Bill  U.S. President in Geneva | far *property* | tree rules |

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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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