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title: The average annual rainfall in Amman is around 385 mm (15 in), with… — Amman · tree and pragmatics
description: The average annual rainfall in Amman is around 385 mm (15 in), with great variations between different parts of the city. Who acts: average annual rainfall. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amman, sentence 165

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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 average annual rainfall in Amman is around 385 mm (15 in), with great variations between different parts of the city.

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**Who acts:** average annual rainfall · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 385 mm

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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 (average annual rainfall), 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:165
# text = The average annual rainfall in Amman is around 385 mm (15 in), with great variations between different parts of the city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Amman	Amman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	around	around	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	385	385	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	variations	variation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the average annual rainfall in Amman | 385 mm and great variations between different parts of the city |  |  |  | 15 *appos*; great variations between different parts of the city *conj* | tree rules |

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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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