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title: The city's demographics changed dramatically after the Ottoman gover… — Amman · tree and pragmatics
description: The city's demographics changed dramatically after the Ottoman government's decision to construct the Hejaz Railway, which linked Damascus and Medina, and facilitated the annual Hajj pilgrimage and trade. Who acts: demographics, Hejaz Railway, Ottoman government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amman» wi
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# Amman, sentence 120

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From Wikipedia, [«Amman»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The city's demographics changed dramatically after the Ottoman government's decision to construct the Hejaz Railway, which linked Damascus and Medina, and facilitated the annual Hajj pilgrimage and trade.

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**Who acts:** demographics, Hejaz Railway, Ottoman government · **What happens:** change, construct, link, facilitate, decide · **To what, where:** Hejaz Railway, Damascus, annual Hajj pilgrimage

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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 (demographics, Hejaz Railway, Ottoman government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Amman:120
# text = The city's demographics changed dramatically after the Ottoman government's decision to construct the Hejaz Railway, which linked Damascus and Medina, and facilitated the annual Hajj pilgrimage and trade.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	demographics	demographic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	dramatically	dramatically	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	construct	construct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Hejaz	Hejaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Railway	Railway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	linked	link	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Medina	Medina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	facilitated	facilitate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	Hajj	Hajj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | the city's demographics |  |  |  | after the Ottoman government's decision | dramatically *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **construct** | to-infinitive | the city's demographics *not said here* | the Hejaz Railway |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent railway=Result |
| 3 | **link** | past | the Hejaz Railway | Damascus and Medina |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damascus=Patient |
| 4 | **facilitate** | past | the city's demographics *not said here* | the annual Hajj pilgrimage and trade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **decide** |  | the Ottoman government |  |  |  |  |  | nom decision «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Amman», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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