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title: In FDI magazine, Amman was chosen as the Middle Eastern city with th… — Amman · tree and pragmatics
description: In FDI magazine, Amman was chosen as the Middle Eastern city with the most potential to be a leader in foreign direct investment in the region. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amman, sentence 204

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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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In FDI magazine, Amman was chosen as the Middle Eastern city with the most potential to be a leader in foreign direct investment in the region.

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**What happens:** choose, be · **To what, where:** Amman, FDI magazine, leader, foreign direct investment

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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:204
# text = In FDI magazine, Amman was chosen as the Middle Eastern city with the most potential to be a leader in foreign direct investment in the region.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	FDI	FDI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	magazine	magazine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Amman	Amman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	potential	potential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past · passive |  | Amman |  | FDI magazine |  | as the Eastern city | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a leader |  | foreign direct investment in the region |  |  | 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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