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title: Jordan was left largely unscathed from the violence that swept the r… — Jordan · tree and pragmatics
description: Jordan was left largely unscathed from the violence that swept the region despite an influx of 1.4 million Syrian refugees into the natural resources-lacking country and the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Who acts: violence, natural resources, Islamic State. A sentence
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# Jordan, sentence 196

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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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Jordan was left largely unscathed from the violence that swept the region despite an influx of 1.4 million Syrian refugees into the natural resources-lacking country and the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

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**Who acts:** violence, natural resources, Islamic State · **What happens:** leave, unscath, sweep, lack, emerge · **To what, where:** Jordan, violence, region, natural resources, country

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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 (violence, natural resources, Islamic State), 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:196
# text = Jordan was left largely unscathed from the violence that swept the region despite an influx of 1.4 million Syrian refugees into the natural resources-lacking country and the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
1	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	unscathed	unscath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	influx	influx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	1.4	1.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	lacking	lack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	emergence	emergence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Levant	Levant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	ISIL	ISIL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | Jordan |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **unscath** | participle |  |  |  | the violence |  | largely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sweep** | past | the violence | the region |  | the natural resources |  | despite a influx of million Syrian refugees | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent region=Theme into resource=Destination |
| 4 | **lack** | gerund | the natural resources *not said here* | country and the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **emerge** |  | the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |  |  |  |  |  | nom emergence «event intransitive»: of=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, «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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