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title: The population of Amman reached 4,007,526 in 2015; the city contains… — Amman · tree and pragmatics
description: The population of Amman reached 4,007,526 in 2015; the city contains about 42% of Jordan's entire population. Who acts: population, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amman, sentence 207

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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 population of Amman reached 4,007,526 in 2015; the city contains about 42% of Jordan's entire population.

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**Who acts:** population, city · **What happens:** reach, contain · **To what, where:** 4,007,526, 2015

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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 (population, 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:207
# text = The population of Amman reached 4,007,526 in 2015; the city contains about 42% of Jordan's entire population.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Amman	Amman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	4,007,526	4,007,526	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	42	42	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the population of Amman | 4,007,526 |  | 2015 |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 4,007,526=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | present | the city |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot %=Theme |

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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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