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title: In addition, ISIS was closing in on Shaer gas field and three other… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: In addition, ISIS was closing in on Shaer gas field and three other facilities in the area—Hayan, Jihar and Ebla—with the loss of these western gas fields having the potential to cause Iran to further subsidize the Syrian government. Who acts: ISIS, western gas fields, Iran. A sentence of Wikipedia'
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# Syria, sentence 464

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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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In addition, ISIS was closing in on Shaer gas field and three other facilities in the area—Hayan, Jihar and Ebla—with the loss of these western gas fields having the potential to cause Iran to further subsidize the Syrian government.

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**Who acts:** ISIS, western gas fields, Iran · **What happens:** close in, have, cause, subsidize · **To what, where:** addition, potential, Iran, Syrian government

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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 (ISIS, western gas fields, Iran), 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:464
# text = In addition, ISIS was closing in on Shaer gas field and three other facilities in the area—Hayan, Jihar and Ebla—with the loss of these western gas fields having the potential to cause Iran to further subsidize the Syrian government.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	ISIS	ISIS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	closing	close	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Shaer	Shaer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	facilities	facility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Hayan	Hayan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Jihar	Jihar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Ebla	Ebla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
31	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
34	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	potential	potential	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
39	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
41	further	further	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	subsidize	subsidize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close in** | past · progressive | ISIS |  |  | addition |  | on Shaer gas field and three other facilities in the area; with the loss of western gas fields  these | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with loss=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | western gas fields  these *not said here* | the potential |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potential=Patient |
| 3 | **cause** | to-infinitive | western gas fields  these *not said here* | Iran |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **subsidize** | to-infinitive | Iran *not said here* | the Syrian government |  |  |  | further *property* | 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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