Amman, sentence 120
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.
The city's demographics changed dramatically after the Ottoman government's decision to construct the Hejaz Railway, which linked Damascus and Medina, and facilitated the annual Hajj pilgrimage and trade.
Who acts: demographics, Hejaz Railway, Ottoman government · What happens: change, construct, link, facilitate, decide · To what, where: Hejaz Railway, Damascus, annual Hajj pilgrimage
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 (demographics, Hejaz Railway, Ottoman government), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 demographics | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 city | case |
| 4 | demographics | demographic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 changed | nsubj |
| 5 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dramatically | dramatically | ADV | _ | 5 changed | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 decision | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 government | det |
| 9 | Ottoman | ottoman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 government | amod |
| 10 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 decision | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 government | case |
| 12 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changed | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 construct | mark |
| 14 | construct | construct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 changed | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Railway | det |
| 16 | Hejaz | Hejaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Railway | compound |
| 17 | Railway | Railway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 construct | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 linked | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 linked | nsubj |
| 20 | linked | link | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Railway | acl:relcl |
| 21 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 linked | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Medina | cc |
| 23 | Medina | Medina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Damascus | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 facilitated | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 facilitated | cc |
| 26 | facilitated | facilitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 changed | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pilgrimage | det |
| 28 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pilgrimage | amod |
| 29 | Hajj | Hajj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 pilgrimage | compound |
| 30 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 facilitated | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 trade | cc |
| 32 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pilgrimage | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | the city's demographics | after the Ottoman government's decision | dramatically property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | construct | to-infinitive | the city's demographics not said here | the Hejaz Railway | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent railway=Result | ||||
| 3 | link | past | the Hejaz Railway | Damascus and Medina | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damascus=Patient | ||||
| 4 | facilitate | past | the city's demographics not said here | the annual Hajj pilgrimage and trade | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | decide | the Ottoman government | nom decision «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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