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title: Ugaritic was a Semitic language loosely related to the Canaanite lan… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: Ugaritic was a Semitic language loosely related to the Canaanite languages and developed the Ugaritic alphabet, considered to be the world's earliest known alphabet. Who acts: Ugaritic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 58

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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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Ugaritic was a Semitic language loosely related to the Canaanite languages and developed the Ugaritic alphabet, considered to be the world's earliest known alphabet.

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**Who acts:** Ugaritic · **What happens:** be, develop, consider, know · **To what, where:** Semitic language, Ugaritic alphabet, earliest known alphabet

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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 (Ugaritic), 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:58
# text = Ugaritic was a Semitic language loosely related to the Canaanite languages and developed the Ugaritic alphabet, considered to be the world's earliest known alphabet.
1	Ugaritic	Ugaritic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Semitic	semitic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	loosely	loosely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Canaanite	canaanite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	developed	develop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Ugaritic	ugaritic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
25	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ugaritic | a Semitic language |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **develop** | past | Ugaritic *not said here* | the Ugaritic alphabet |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alphabet=Product |
| 3 | **consider** | participle | Ugaritic *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Ugaritic *not said here* | the world's earliest known alphabet |  |  |  | the world *nmod:poss* | 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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