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title: This language was to remain dominant in Syria and the entire Near Ea… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: This language was to remain dominant in Syria and the entire Near East until after the Islamic conquest in the 7th and 8th centuries AD, and was to be a vehicle for the spread of Christianity. Who acts: language. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 80

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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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This language was to remain dominant in Syria and the entire Near East until after the Islamic conquest in the 7th and 8th centuries AD, and was to be a vehicle for the spread of Christianity.

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**Who acts:** language · **What happens:** remain, be, spread · **To what, where:** vehicle, Christianity

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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 (language), 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:80
# text = This language was to remain dominant in Syria and the entire Near East until after the Islamic conquest in the 7th and 8th centuries AD, and was to be a vehicle for the spread of Christianity.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	dominant	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	until	until	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	compound	_	_
18	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	7th	7th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	8th	8th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	21	conj	_	_
24	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
25	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | to-infinitive | this language *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dominant *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this language | a vehicle |  |  |  | for the spread of Christianity | tree rules |
| 3 | **spread** |  |  | Christianity |  |  |  |  | nom spread «event transitive»: of=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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