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title: Yamhad (modern Aleppo) dominated northern Syria for two centuries, a… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: Yamhad (modern Aleppo) dominated northern Syria for two centuries, although eastern Syria was occupied in the 19th and 18th centuries BC by the Old Assyrian Empire ruled by the Amorite dynasty of Shamshi-Adad I, and by the Babylonian Empire which was founded by Amorites. Who acts: Yamhad, Old Assyri
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# Syria, sentence 61

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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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Yamhad (modern Aleppo) dominated northern Syria for two centuries, although eastern Syria was occupied in the 19th and 18th centuries BC by the Old Assyrian Empire ruled by the Amorite dynasty of Shamshi-Adad I, and by the Babylonian Empire which was founded by Amorites.

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**Who acts:** Yamhad, Old Assyrian Empire, Amorites · **What happens:** dominate, occupy, rule, found · **To what, where:** northern Syria, eastern Syria

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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 (Yamhad, Old Assyrian Empire, Amorites), 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:61
# text = Yamhad (modern Aleppo) dominated northern Syria for two centuries, although eastern Syria was occupied in the 19th and 18th centuries BC by the Old Assyrian Empire ruled by the Amorite dynasty of Shamshi-Adad I, and by the Babylonian Empire which was founded by Amorites.
1	Yamhad	Yamhad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Aleppo	Aleppo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	dominated	dominate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	20	conj	_	_
23	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Assyrian	Assyrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Amorite	Amorite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Shamshi	Shamshi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Adad	Adad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	Babylonian	Babylonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Amorites	Amorite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	48	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dominate** | past | Yamhad | northern Syria |  |  | century |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme syria=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **occupy** | past · passive |  | eastern Syria |  |  | century |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **rule** | past | the Old Assyrian Empire |  |  |  |  | by the Amorite dynasty of Shamshi and Adad; I *nsubj* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **found** | past · passive | Amorites |  |  |  |  | by the Babylonian Empire; which *nsubj:pass* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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