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title: Amman's first municipal council was established in 1909, and Circass… — Amman · tree and pragmatics
description: Amman's first municipal council was established in 1909, and Circassian Ismael Babouk was elected as its mayor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amman, sentence 123

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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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Amman's first municipal council was established in 1909, and Circassian Ismael Babouk was elected as its mayor.

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**What happens:** establish, elect · **To what, where:** first municipal council, 1909, Circassian

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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: 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:123
# text = Amman's first municipal council was established in 1909, and Circassian Ismael Babouk was elected as its mayor.
1	Amman	Amman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1909	1909	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	Circassian	Circassian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	Ismael	Ismael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	Babouk	Babouk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | Amman's first municipal council |  | 1909 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **elect** | past · passive |  | Circassian |  |  |  | as council's mayor | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as mayor=Attribute |

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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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