Amman, sentence 211
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 had been abandoned for centuries until hundreds of Circassians were resettled in it in the 19th century by the Ottoman authorities.
Who acts: Ottoman authorities · What happens: abandon, resettle · To what, where: Amman, hundreds, population
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 (Ottoman authorities), 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 | 4 abandoned | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 abandoned | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 abandoned | aux:pass |
| 4 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 centuries | case |
| 6 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 abandoned | obl |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 resettled | mark |
| 8 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 resettled | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Circassians | case |
| 10 | Circassians | Circassian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 hundreds | nmod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 resettled | aux:pass |
| 12 | resettled | resettle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 abandoned | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 resettled | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 century | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 century | det |
| 17 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 18 century | amod |
| 18 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resettled | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 authorities | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 authorities | det |
| 21 | Ottoman | ottoman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 authorities | amod |
| 22 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 resettled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 abandoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abandon | past · perfect · passive | Amman | century | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | resettle | past · passive | the Ottoman authorities | hundreds of Circassians | population | century | tree rules |
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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