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title: As per one estimate, the count of Christians affiliated with establi… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: As per one estimate, the count of Christians affiliated with established denominations in Syria has dropped from approximately 2.5 million prior to the civil war, to about 500,000 in 2023. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 537

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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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As per one estimate, the count of Christians affiliated with established denominations in Syria has dropped from approximately 2.5 million prior to the civil war, to about 500,000 in 2023.

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**What happens:** affiliate, establish, drop · **To what, where:** count, Syria, civil war

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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:537
# text = As per one estimate, the count of Christians affiliated with established denominations in Syria has dropped from approximately 2.5 million prior to the civil war, to about 500,000 in 2023.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	per	per	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	estimate	estimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	affiliated	affiliate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	denominations	denomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
19	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	2.5	2.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
22	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	500,000	500,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affiliate** | participle |  | the count of Christians *not said here* |  | Syria |  | with established denominations | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with denomination=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **drop** | present · perfect · passive |  | the count of Christians |  | the civil war |  | as one estimate; to 500,000 in 2023 | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from war=Destination to 500,000=Initial\_Location |

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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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