Amman, sentence 20
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 derives its name from the ancient people of the Ammonites, whose capital the city had been since the 13th century BC.
Who acts: Amman, capital, city · What happens: derive, be, name · To what, where: name
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, capital, city), 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 derives | nsubj |
| 2 | derives | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 derives | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 7 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 derives | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Ammonites | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Ammonites | det |
| 11 | Ammonites | Ammonite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 people | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 capital | punct |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 capital | nmod:poss |
| 14 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 BC | nsubj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 BC | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 BC | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 BC | cop |
| 19 | since | since | ADP | _ | 23 BC | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 century | det |
| 21 | 13th | 13th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 22 century | amod |
| 22 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 BC | compound |
| 23 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ammonites | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 derives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | present | Amman | city's name | from the ancient people of the Ammonites and century BC | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent name=Result from people=Material | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | century BC's capital | since century BC | the city nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | city | nom name «communication 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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