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title: The Ammonites named it Rabat ʿAmmān (𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍), with the term Rabat m… — Amman · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ammonites named it Rabat ʿAmmān (𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍), with the term Rabat meaning the "Capital" or the "King's Quarters". Who acts: Ammonites, term Rabat. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amman, sentence 21

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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 Ammonites named it Rabat ʿAmmān (𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍), with the term Rabat meaning the "Capital" or the "King's Quarters".

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**Who acts:** Ammonites, term Rabat · **What happens:** name, mean · **To what, where:** city, Capital

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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 (Ammonites, term Rabat), 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:21
# text = The Ammonites named it Rabat ʿAmmān (𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍), with the term Rabat meaning the "Capital" or the "King's Quarters".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ammonites	Ammonite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	Rabat	Rabat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ʿAmmān	ʿammān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	𐤓𐤁𐤕	𐤓𐤁𐤕	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	𐤏𐤌𐤍	𐤏𐤌𐤍	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Rabat	rabat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	Quarters	Quarter	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past | the Ammonites | city |  |  |  | Rabat ʿAmmān and the term Rabat *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | the term Rabat *not said here* | the Capital  King's Quarters |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Topic |

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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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