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title: The modern Syrian state was established in the mid-20th century afte… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: The modern Syrian state was established in the mid-20th century after centuries of Ottoman rule, as a French Mandate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 9

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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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The modern Syrian state was established in the mid-20th century after centuries of Ottoman rule, as a French Mandate.

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**What happens:** establish · **To what, where:** modern Syrian state

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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: 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:9
# text = The modern Syrian state was established in the mid-20th century after centuries of Ottoman rule, as a French Mandate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mid-20th	mid-20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Mandate	mandate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | the modern Syrian state |  |  | century | as a French Mandate | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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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