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title: The Treaty of London, signed by the British government and the Emir… — Jordan · tree and pragmatics
description: The Treaty of London, signed by the British government and the Emir of Transjordan on 22 March 1946, recognised the independence of the state. Who acts: Treaty. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jordan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jordan, sentence 151

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From Wikipedia, [«Jordan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan), 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 Treaty of London, signed by the British government and the Emir of Transjordan on 22 March 1946, recognised the independence of the state.

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**Who acts:** Treaty · **What happens:** sign, recognise · **To what, where:** Treaty, 22, independence

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jordan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Treaty), 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:Jordan:151
# text = The Treaty of London, signed by the British government and the Emir of Transjordan on 22 March 1946, recognised the independence of the state.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Emir	Emir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Transjordan	Transjordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
18	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	1946	1946	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | participle |  | the Treaty of London *not said here* |  | 22  March |  | the British government and the Emir of Transjordan *obl:agent* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on 22=Destination |
| 2 | **recognise** | past | the Treaty of London | the independence of the state |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer independence=Stimulus |

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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, «Jordan», 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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