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title: Beginning in spring 2011, the Syrian government deployed the Syrian… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: Beginning in spring 2011, the Syrian government deployed the Syrian Army to quell the uprising, and several cities were besieged, though the unrest continued. Who acts: Syrian government, unrest. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 244

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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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Beginning in spring 2011, the Syrian government deployed the Syrian Army to quell the uprising, and several cities were besieged, though the unrest continued.

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**Who acts:** Syrian government, unrest · **What happens:** begin, deploy, quell, besiege, continue · **To what, where:** Syrian Army, uprising, several cities

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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 (Syrian government, unrest), 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:244
# text = Beginning in spring 2011, the Syrian government deployed the Syrian Army to quell the uprising, and several cities were besieged, though the unrest continued.
1	Beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	deployed	deploy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	quell	quell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	uprising	uprising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	besieged	besiege	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	unrest	unrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | gerund | the Syrian government *not said here* |  |  |  | spring |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **deploy** | past | the Syrian government | the Syrian Army |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **quell** | to-infinitive | the Syrian government *not said here* | the uprising |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uprising=Patient |
| 4 | **besiege** | past · passive |  | several cities |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **continue** | past | the unrest |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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