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title: Settlement in Amman dates to the 8th millennium BC at 'Ain Ghazal, h… — Amman · tree and pragmatics
description: Settlement in Amman dates to the 8th millennium BC at 'Ain Ghazal, home to the world's oldest human statues. Who acts: Settlement. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amman, sentence 3

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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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Settlement in Amman dates to the 8th millennium BC at 'Ain Ghazal, home to the world's oldest human statues.

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**Who acts:** Settlement · **What happens:** date

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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 (Settlement), 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:3
# text = Settlement in Amman dates to the 8th millennium BC at 'Ain Ghazal, home to the world's oldest human statues.
1	Settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Amman	Amman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	dates	date	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	8th	8th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Ain	Ain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	Ghazal	Ghazal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
21	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **date** | present | Settlement in Amman |  |  |  |  | to the 8th millennium at Ain | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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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