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title: On 5 October 2003 Israel bombed a site near Damascus, claiming it wa… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: On 5 October 2003 Israel bombed a site near Damascus, claiming it was a terrorist training facility for members of Islamic Jihad. Who acts: Israel, election. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 235

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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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On 5 October 2003 Israel bombed a site near Damascus, claiming it was a terrorist training facility for members of Islamic Jihad.

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**Who acts:** Israel, election · **What happens:** bomb, claim, be · **To what, where:** site, Damascus, terrorist training facility · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Israel, election), 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:235
# text = On 5 October 2003 Israel bombed a site near Damascus, claiming it was a terrorist training facility for members of Islamic Jihad.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bombed	bomb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	claiming	claim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	terrorist	terrorist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	facility	facility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Jihad	Jihad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bomb** | past | Israel | a site |  | Damascus | october |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent site=Patient |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | gerund | Israel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | election | a terrorist training facility |  |  |  | for members of Islamic Jihad | 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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