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title: Successive waves of refugees to the city has led to the rapid constr… — Amman · tree and pragmatics
description: Successive waves of refugees to the city has led to the rapid construction of new neighborhoods, but Amman's capacity for new or widened roads remains limited despite the influx. Who acts: Successive waves, capacity. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amman» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Amman, sentence 315

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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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Successive waves of refugees to the city has led to the rapid construction of new neighborhoods, but Amman's capacity for new or widened roads remains limited despite the influx.

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**Who acts:** Successive waves, capacity · **What happens:** lead, widen, remain, wave, construct · **To what, where:** refugees, new neighborhoods

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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 (Successive waves, capacity), 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:315
# text = Successive waves of refugees to the city has led to the rapid construction of new neighborhoods, but Amman's capacity for new or widened roads remains limited despite the influx.
1	Successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	neighborhoods	neighborhood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	Amman	Amman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	widened	widen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
27	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
28	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	influx	influx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present · perfect | Successive waves of refugees to the city |  |  |  |  | to the rapid construction of new neighborhoods | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to construction=Patient |
| 2 | **widen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **remain** | present | Amman's capacity for new widened roads |  |  |  |  | limited *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wave** |  |  | refugees to the city |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **construct** |  |  | new neighborhoods |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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