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title: Homs was captured by rebel forces by the early morning of 8 December… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: Homs was captured by rebel forces by the early morning of 8 December, leaving no major regime strongholds between the rebel advance and Damascus itself. Who acts: rebel forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 276

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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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Homs was captured by rebel forces by the early morning of 8 December, leaving no major regime strongholds between the rebel advance and Damascus itself.

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**Who acts:** rebel forces · **What happens:** capture, leave · **To what, where:** Homs, major regime strongholds, rebel advance

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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 (rebel forces), 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:276
# text = Homs was captured by rebel forces by the early morning of 8 December, leaving no major regime strongholds between the rebel advance and Damascus itself.
1	Homs	Homs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
17	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	strongholds	stronghold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	25	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past · passive | rebel forces | Homs |  |  | morning |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | rebel forces *not said here* | no major regime strongholds |  | the rebel advance |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stronghold=Theme between advance=Location |

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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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