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title: The monarch, Abdullah II, ascended to the throne in February 1999 af… — Jordan · tree and pragmatics
description: The monarch, Abdullah II, ascended to the throne in February 1999 after the death of his father King Hussein. Who acts: father. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jordan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jordan, sentence 248

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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 monarch, Abdullah II, ascended to the throne in February 1999 after the death of his father King Hussein.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** ascend, die · **To what, where:** monarch, throne

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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 (father), 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:248
# text = The monarch, Abdullah II, ascended to the throne in February 1999 after the death of his father King Hussein.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Abdullah	Abdullah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ascended	ascend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	Hussein	Hussein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascend** | participle |  | the monarch *not said here* |  | the throne | after the death of status's father; february |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to throne=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **die** |  | status's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «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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