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title: The People's Assembly was also established to serve as an interim pa… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: The People's Assembly was also established to serve as an interim parliament during the five-year transition, overseeing the drafting of a new permanent constitution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 358

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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 People's Assembly was also established to serve as an interim parliament during the five-year transition, overseeing the drafting of a new permanent constitution.

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**What happens:** establish, serve, oversee, draft · **To what, where:** Assembly, drafting, new permanent constitution

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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: 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:358
# text = The People's Assembly was also established to serve as an interim parliament during the five-year transition, overseeing the drafting of a new permanent constitution.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	interim	interim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	during	during	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	transition	transition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	overseeing	oversee	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	drafting	drafting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | the People's Assembly |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | during the year transition | as a interim parliament | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as parliament=Attribute |
| 3 | **oversee** | gerund |  | the drafting of a new permanent constitution |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent drafting=Eventuality |
| 4 | **draft** |  |  | a new permanent constitution |  |  |  |  | nom drafting «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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