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title: Recent classifications of the Eblaite language have shown that it wa… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: Recent classifications of the Eblaite language have shown that it was an East Semitic language, closely related to the Akkadian language. Who acts: Recent classifications, language. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 51

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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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Recent classifications of the Eblaite language have shown that it was an East Semitic language, closely related to the Akkadian language.

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**Who acts:** Recent classifications, language · **What happens:** show, be, classify · **To what, where:** Semitic language, Eblaite language

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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 (Recent classifications, language), 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:51
# text = Recent classifications of the Eblaite language have shown that it was an East Semitic language, closely related to the Akkadian language.
1	Recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	classifications	classification	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Eblaite	Eblaite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Semitic	Semitic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Akkadian	akkadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · perfect | Recent classifications of the Eblaite language |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | language | a Semitic language |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **classify** |  |  | the Eblaite language |  |  |  |  | nom classification «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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