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title: Despite this, Syria remained a one-party state with an extensive sec… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite this, Syria remained a one-party state with an extensive secret police apparatus that curtailed any independent political activity. Who acts: Syria, extensive secret police apparatus. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 320

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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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Despite this, Syria remained a one-party state with an extensive secret police apparatus that curtailed any independent political activity.

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**Who acts:** Syria, extensive secret police apparatus · **What happens:** remain, curtail · **To what, where:** party state, independent political activity

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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 (Syria, extensive secret police apparatus), 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:320
# text = Despite this, Syria remained a one-party state with an extensive secret police apparatus that curtailed any independent political activity.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	apparatus	apparatus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	curtailed	curtail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
20	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Syria | a party state |  |  |  | despite this; with a extensive secret police apparatus | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme state=Attribute |
| 2 | **curtail** | past | a extensive secret police apparatus | any independent political activity |  |  |  |  | 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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