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title: Contemporary Syrian literature also encompasses science fiction and… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: Contemporary Syrian literature also encompasses science fiction and futuristic utopiae (Nuhad Sharif, Talib Umran), which may also serve as media of dissent. Who acts: Contemporary Syrian literature, futuristic utopiae. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 589

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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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Contemporary Syrian literature also encompasses science fiction and futuristic utopiae (Nuhad Sharif, Talib Umran), which may also serve as media of dissent.

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**Who acts:** Contemporary Syrian literature, futuristic utopiae · **What happens:** encompass, serve · **To what, where:** science fiction

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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 (Contemporary Syrian literature, futuristic utopiae), 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:589
# text = Contemporary Syrian literature also encompasses science fiction and futuristic utopiae (Nuhad Sharif, Talib Umran), which may also serve as media of dissent.
1	Contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	encompasses	encompass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fiction	fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	futuristic	futuristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	utopiae	utopiae	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Nuhad	Nuhad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Sharif	Sharif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Talib	Talib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	Umran	Umran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	dissent	dissent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	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 | **encompass** | present | Contemporary Syrian literature | science fiction and futuristic utopiae |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fiction=Theme |
| 2 | **serve** | may | futuristic utopiae |  |  |  |  | as media of dissent | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as media=Attribute |

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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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