Amman, sentence 108

From Wikipedia, «Amman», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Amman began to be resettled in 1878, when several hundred Muslim Circassians arrived following their expulsion from the North Caucasus by the Russian Empire during the events of the Russo-Circassian War.

Who acts: Amman, Muslim Circassians, Circassians · What happens: begin, resettle, arrive, follow, expel · To what, where: 1878, several hundred, expulsion, North Caucasus

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Amman». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amman, Muslim Circassians, Circassians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amman	Amman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 resettled	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 resettled	aux:pass
5	resettled	resettle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 began	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1878	case
7	1878	1878	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 resettled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 arrived	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 arrived	advmod
10	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hundred	amod
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 arrived	obl
12	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Circassians	amod
13	Circassians	Circassian	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 arrived	nsubj
14	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
15	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 arrived	xcomp
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 expulsion	nmod:poss
17	expulsion	expulsion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 following	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 Caucasus	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Caucasus	det
20	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Caucasus	compound
21	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 expulsion	nmod
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 Empire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Empire	det
24	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Empire	amod
25	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 following	obl
26	during	during	ADP	_	28 events	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 events	det
28	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 arrived	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	34 War	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 War	det
31	Russo	Russo	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 War	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Russo	punct
33	Circassian	Circassian	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 War	compound
34	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 events	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Amman					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	resettle	to-infinitive · passive	Amman not said here		1878			tree rules
3	arrive	past	Muslim Circassians	several hundred		during the events of the Russo Circassian War		tree rules
4	follow	gerund	Muslim Circassians not said here	Circassians's expulsion	the North Caucasus		by the Russian Empire	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent expulsion=Theme by empire=Trajectory
5	expel		Circassians = circassian		the North Caucasus			nom expulsion «act transitive»: poss=agent from=place

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Amman», 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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Amman, sentence 108