--- title: The indigenous Assyrians and Western Aramaic-speakers number around… — Syria · tree and pragmatics description: The indigenous Assyrians and Western Aramaic-speakers number around 400,000 people, with the Western Aramaic-speakers living mainly in the villages of Maaloula, Jubb'adin and Bakh'a, while the Assyrians mainly reside in the north and northeast (Homs, Aleppo, Qamishli, Hasakah). 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The indigenous Assyrians and Western Aramaic-speakers number around 400,000 people, with the Western Aramaic-speakers living mainly in the villages of Maaloula, Jubb'adin and Bakh'a, while the Assyrians mainly reside in the north and northeast (Homs, Aleppo, Qamishli, Hasakah). **Who acts:** Western Aramaic speakers, indigenous Assyrians · **What happens:** live, reside · **To what, where:** villages, north 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 (Western Aramaic speakers, indigenous Assyrians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:503 # text = The indigenous Assyrians and Western Aramaic-speakers number around 400,000 people, with the Western Aramaic-speakers living mainly in the villages of Maaloula, Jubb'adin and Bakh'a, while the Assyrians mainly reside in the north and northeast (Homs, Aleppo, Qamishli, Hasakah). 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 indigenous indigenous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Assyrians Assyrian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 5 Western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 6 Aramaic Aramaic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 compound _ _ 9 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 10 around around ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 400,000 400,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 Western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 Aramaic Aramaic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 20 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Maaloula Maaloula PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Jubb'adin Jubb'adin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 Bakh'a Bakh'a PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Assyrians Assyrian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 35 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 reside reside VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 northeast northeast NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Homs Homs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 Aleppo Aleppo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 Qamishli Qamishli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 Hasakah Hasakah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | gerund | the Western Aramaic speakers *not said here* | | | the villages of Maaloula and Jubb'adin and Bakh'a | | mainly *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | | 2 | **reside** | present | the indigenous Assyrians and Western Aramaic speakers number around 400,000 people with the Western Aramaic speakers and the Assyrians | | | the north and northeast | | mainly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 502](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Syria/502/) - next →: [sentence 504](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Syria/504/) - ↑ back to [Syria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Syria/)