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title: The Syrian Arab Armed Forces melted away as its soldiers abandoned t… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Syrian Arab Armed Forces melted away as its soldiers abandoned their weapons and uniforms, many deserting across the border to Iraq and Lebanon. Who acts: Syrian Arab, soldiers, many. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 278

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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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The Syrian Arab Armed Forces melted away as its soldiers abandoned their weapons and uniforms, many deserting across the border to Iraq and Lebanon.

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**Who acts:** Syrian Arab, soldiers, many · **What happens:** melt away, abandon, desert · **To what, where:** weapons, Iraq, border

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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 Arab, soldiers, many), 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:278
# text = The Syrian Arab Armed Forces melted away as its soldiers abandoned their weapons and uniforms, many deserting across the border to Iraq and Lebanon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Arab	Arab	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	melted	melt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
18	deserting	desert	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	across	across	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt away** | past | the Syrian Arab |  |  |  |  | Armed Forces *nsubj*; away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **abandon** | past | heartland's soldiers | forces's weapons and uniforms |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme weapon=Source |
| 3 | **desert** | gerund | many |  | Iraq and Lebanon | the border |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme across border=Destination |

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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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