Amman, sentence 21
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 Ammonites named it Rabat ʿAmmān (𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍), with the term Rabat meaning the "Capital" or the "King's Quarters".
Who acts: Ammonites, term Rabat · What happens: name, mean · To what, where: city, Capital
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 (Ammonites, term Rabat), 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 Ammonites | det |
| 2 | Ammonites | Ammonite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 named | nsubj |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 named | obj |
| 5 | Rabat | Rabat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ʿAmmān | compound |
| 6 | ʿAmmān | ʿammān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 named | xcomp |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 𐤏𐤌𐤍 | punct |
| 8 | 𐤓𐤁𐤕 | 𐤓𐤁𐤕 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 𐤏𐤌𐤍 | compound |
| 9 | 𐤏𐤌𐤍 | 𐤏𐤌𐤍 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ʿAmmān | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 𐤏𐤌𐤍 | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Rabat | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Rabat | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rabat | det |
| 14 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Rabat | compound |
| 15 | Rabat | rabat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ʿAmmān | conj |
| 16 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 Rabat | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Capital | det |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Capital | punct |
| 19 | Capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meaning | obj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Capital | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 Quarters | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Quarters | det |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Quarters | punct |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Quarters | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 King | case |
| 26 | Quarters | Quarter | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Capital | nmod |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Quarters | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past | the Ammonites | city | Rabat ʿAmmān and the term Rabat xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | mean | gerund | the term Rabat not said here | the Capital King's Quarters | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Topic |
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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