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title: Arabic is spoken by Lebanese and Syrian colonies on Isla de Margarit… — Venezuela · tree and pragmatics
description: Arabic is spoken by Lebanese and Syrian colonies on Isla de Margarita, Maracaibo, Punto Fijo, Puerto la Cruz, El Tigre, Maracay, and Caracas. Who acts: Lebanese colonies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Venezuela» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Venezuela, sentence 597

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From Wikipedia, [«Venezuela»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela), 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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Arabic is spoken by Lebanese and Syrian colonies on Isla de Margarita, Maracaibo, Punto Fijo, Puerto la Cruz, El Tigre, Maracay, and Caracas.

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**Who acts:** Lebanese colonies · **What happens:** speak · **To what, where:** Arabic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Venezuela». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lebanese colonies), 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:Venezuela:597
# text = Arabic is spoken by Lebanese and Syrian colonies on Isla de Margarita, Maracaibo, Punto Fijo, Puerto la Cruz, El Tigre, Maracay, and Caracas.
1	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	Lebanese	Lebanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Isla	Isla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	Margarita	Margarita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Maracaibo	Maracaibo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Punto	Punto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	Fijo	Fijo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Puerto	Puerto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	la	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	Cruz	Cruz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
24	Tigre	Tigre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Maracay	Maracay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Caracas	Caracas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive | Lebanese colonies on Isla Margarita and Maracaibo and Punto and Puerto and El and Maracay | Arabic |  |  |  | Caracas *obl* | tree rules |

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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, «Venezuela», 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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