Amman, sentence 315
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.
Successive waves of refugees to the city has led to the rapid construction of new neighborhoods, but Amman's capacity for new or widened roads remains limited despite the influx.
Who acts: Successive waves, capacity · What happens: lead, widen, remain, wave, construct · To what, where: refugees, new neighborhoods
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 (Successive waves, capacity), 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 | Successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 waves | amod |
| 2 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 led | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 refugees | case |
| 4 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 waves | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refugees | nmod |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 led | aux |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 construction | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 construction | det |
| 12 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 construction | amod |
| 13 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 neighborhoods | case |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 neighborhoods | amod |
| 16 | neighborhoods | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 construction | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 remains | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 remains | cc |
| 19 | Amman | Amman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 capacity | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Amman | case |
| 21 | capacity | capacity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 remains | nsubj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 roads | case |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 roads | amod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 widened | cc |
| 25 | widened | widen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 roads | amod |
| 26 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 capacity | nmod |
| 27 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 led | conj |
| 28 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 remains | xcomp |
| 29 | despite | despite | ADP | _ | 31 influx | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 influx | det |
| 31 | influx | influx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 limited | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present · perfect | Successive waves of refugees to the city | to the rapid construction of new neighborhoods | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to construction=Patient | ||||
| 2 | widen | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | remain | present | Amman's capacity for new widened roads | limited property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wave | refugees to the city | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | construct | new neighborhoods | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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