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title: Syria prospered under Roman rule, being strategically located on the… — Syria · tree and pragmatics
description: Syria prospered under Roman rule, being strategically located on the Silk Road, which gave it massive wealth and importance, making it the battleground for the rivaling Romans and Persians. Who acts: Syria. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Syria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Syria, sentence 97

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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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Syria prospered under Roman rule, being strategically located on the Silk Road, which gave it massive wealth and importance, making it the battleground for the rivaling Romans and Persians.

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**Who acts:** Syria · **What happens:** prosper, locate, give, make · **To what, where:** Roman rule, Silk Road, control

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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 (Syria), 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:97
# text = Syria prospered under Roman rule, being strategically located on the Silk Road, which gave it massive wealth and importance, making it the battleground for the rivaling Romans and Persians.
1	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	prospered	prosper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	strategically	strategically	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Silk	Silk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	battleground	battleground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rivaling	rivaling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	appos	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Persians	Persian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prosper** | past | Syria |  |  | Roman rule |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rule=Location |
| 2 | **locate** | gerund · passive | Syria *not said here* |  |  | the Silk Road |  | strategically *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past |  | control |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; massive wealth and importance *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient wealth=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | gerund |  | control |  |  |  | for the rivaling; the battleground *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary battleground=Product for rivaling=Asset |

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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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