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title: Prior to the war the government hoped to attract new investment in t… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: Prior to the war the government hoped to attract new investment in the tourism, natural gas, and service sectors to diversify its economy and reduce its dependence on oil and agriculture. Who acts: government, service sectors. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Syria, sentence 447

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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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Prior to the war the government hoped to attract new investment in the tourism, natural gas, and service sectors to diversify its economy and reduce its dependence on oil and agriculture.

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**Who acts:** government, service sectors · **What happens:** hope, attract, diversify, reduce · **To what, where:** new investment, tourism, economy, dependence, oil

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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 (government, service sectors), 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:447
# text = Prior to the war the government hoped to attract new investment in the tourism, natural gas, and service sectors to diversify its economy and reduce its dependence on oil and agriculture.
1	Prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tourism	tourism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	sectors	sector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	diversify	diversify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	reduce	reduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	dependence	dependence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | past | the government |  |  |  |  | prior the war | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **attract** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | new investment |  | the tourism and natural gas |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent investment=Patient |
| 3 | **diversify** | to-infinitive | service sectors | sector's economy |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent economy=Patient |
| 4 | **reduce** | infinitive | service sectors *not said here* | economy's dependence |  | oil and agriculture |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer dependence=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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