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title: Syria was once home to a substantial population of Jews, with large… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: Syria was once home to a substantial population of Jews, with large communities in Damascus, Aleppo, and Qamishli. Who acts: Syria. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 538

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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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Syria was once home to a substantial population of Jews, with large communities in Damascus, Aleppo, and Qamishli.

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**Who acts:** Syria · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** home

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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 (Syria), 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:538
# text = Syria was once home to a substantial population of Jews, with large communities in Damascus, Aleppo, and Qamishli.
1	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	substantial	substantial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Aleppo	Aleppo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Qamishli	Qamishli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Syria | home |  |  |  | to a substantial population of Jews and large communities in Damascus and Aleppo and Qamishli; once *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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