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title: The Ptolemic-Seleucid rivalry, also known as the Syrian Wars, left t… — Amman · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ptolemic-Seleucid rivalry, also known as the Syrian Wars, left the region east of the Jordan River a disputed frontier, with Ammon increasing in strategic importance, considering its citadel hill. Who acts: Ptolemic Seleucid rivalry, Ammon. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Amman» with its dependency t
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# Amman, sentence 53

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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 Ptolemic-Seleucid rivalry, also known as the Syrian Wars, left the region east of the Jordan River a disputed frontier, with Ammon increasing in strategic importance, considering its citadel hill.

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**Who acts:** Ptolemic Seleucid rivalry, Ammon · **What happens:** know, leave, dispute, increase, consider · **To what, where:** Ptolemic Seleucid rivalry, region east, strategic importance, citadel hill

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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 (Ptolemic Seleucid rivalry, Ammon), 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:53
# text = The Ptolemic-Seleucid rivalry, also known as the Syrian Wars, left the region east of the Jordan River a disputed frontier, with Ammon increasing in strategic importance, considering its citadel hill.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Ptolemic	Ptolemic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Seleucid	seleucid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rivalry	rivalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Wars	War	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	frontier	frontier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	Ammon	Ammon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	strategic	strategic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	citadel	citadel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | the Ptolemic Seleucid rivalry *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Syrian Wars | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as war=Attribute |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the Ptolemic Seleucid rivalry | the region east of the Jordan River |  |  |  | a disputed frontier *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent east=Theme frontier=Attribute |
| 3 | **dispute** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **increase** | gerund | Ammon |  |  | strategic importance |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **consider** | gerund | Ammon *not said here* | rivalry's citadel hill |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hill=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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