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title: Amman derives its name from the ancient people of the Ammonites, who… — Amman · tree and pragmatics
description: Amman derives its name from the ancient people of the Ammonites, whose capital the city had been since the 13th century BC. Who acts: Amman, capital, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amman, sentence 20

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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 derives its name from the ancient people of the Ammonites, whose capital the city had been since the 13th century BC.

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**Who acts:** Amman, capital, city · **What happens:** derive, be, name · **To what, where:** name

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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 (Amman, capital, city), 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:20
# text = Amman derives its name from the ancient people of the Ammonites, whose capital the city had been since the 13th century BC.
1	Amman	Amman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	derives	derive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Ammonites	Ammonite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
19	since	since	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	13th	13th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | present | Amman | city's name |  |  |  | from the ancient people of the Ammonites and century BC | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent name=Result from people=Material |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | century BC's capital |  |  |  | since century BC | the city *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | city |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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