Amman, sentence 177
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 Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) has been investing in making the city a better place, through a number of initiatives.
Who acts: Amman Municipality · What happens: invest, make · To what, where: number, city
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 Municipality), 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 | 4 Municipality | det |
| 2 | Greater | Greater | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Amman | compound |
| 3 | Amman | Amman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Municipality | compound |
| 4 | Municipality | Municipality | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 investing | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 GAM | punct |
| 6 | GAM | GAM | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Municipality | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 GAM | punct |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 investing | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 investing | aux |
| 10 | investing | invest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 making | mark |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 investing | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 place | amod |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 number | punct |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 number | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 number | det |
| 21 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 investing | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 initiatives | case |
| 23 | initiatives | initiative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 number | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 investing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invest | present · perfect · progressive | the Amman Municipality | a number of initiatives | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | the Amman Municipality not said here | the city | a better place obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset city=Beneficiary place=Product |
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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