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title: Assyrian domination ended after the Assyrians greatly weakened thems… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: Assyrian domination ended after the Assyrians greatly weakened themselves in a series of brutal internal civil wars, followed by attacks from: the Medes, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Persians, Scythians and Cimmerians. Who acts: Assyrian domination, Assyrians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its d
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# Syria, sentence 82

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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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Assyrian domination ended after the Assyrians greatly weakened themselves in a series of brutal internal civil wars, followed by attacks from: the Medes, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Persians, Scythians and Cimmerians.

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**Who acts:** Assyrian domination, Assyrians · **What happens:** end, weaken, follow · **To what, where:** Assyrians, series, brutal internal civil wars

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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 (Assyrian domination, Assyrians), 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:82
# text = Assyrian domination ended after the Assyrians greatly weakened themselves in a series of brutal internal civil wars, followed by attacks from: the Medes, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Persians, Scythians and Cimmerians.
1	Assyrian	assyrian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	domination	domination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Assyrians	Assyrian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	weakened	weaken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	brutal	brutal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:agent	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Medes	Mede	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Babylonians	Babylonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Chaldeans	Chaldean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Persians	Persian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Scythians	Scythian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Cimmerians	Cimmerian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | Assyrian domination |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **weaken** | past | the Assyrians | Assyrians *= assyrian* |  | a series of brutal internal civil wars |  | greatly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 3 | **follow** | participle |  | brutal internal civil wars *not said here* |  |  |  | attacks from the Medes and Babylonians and Chaldeans and Persians and Scythians and Cimmerians *obl:agent* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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