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title: The 1948 war caused an exodus of urban Muslim and Christian Palestin… — Amman · tree and pragmatics
description: The 1948 war caused an exodus of urban Muslim and Christian Palestinian refugees, mostly from Jaffa, Ramla and Lydda, to Amman, whose population swelled to 110,000. Who acts: 1948 war, population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amman, sentence 220

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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 1948 war caused an exodus of urban Muslim and Christian Palestinian refugees, mostly from Jaffa, Ramla and Lydda, to Amman, whose population swelled to 110,000.

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**Who acts:** 1948 war, population · **What happens:** cause, swell · **To what, where:** exodus

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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 (1948 war, population), 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:220
# text = The 1948 war caused an exodus of urban Muslim and Christian Palestinian refugees, mostly from Jaffa, Ramla and Lydda, to Amman, whose population swelled to 110,000.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	1948	1948	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	exodus	exodus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
9	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Jaffa	Jaffa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Ramla	Ramla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Lydda	Lydda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Amman	Amman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	110,000	110,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | the 1948 war | a exodus of urban Muslim Palestinian refugees from Jaffa and Lydda and Amman |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition exodus=Patient |
| 2 | **swell** | past | population |  |  |  |  | to 110,000 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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