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title: Currently, the railway has little civilian activity; it is primarily… — Jordan · tree and pragmatics
description: Currently, the railway has little civilian activity; it is primarily used for transporting goods. Who acts: railway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jordan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jordan, sentence 350

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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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Currently, the railway has little civilian activity; it is primarily used for transporting goods.

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**Who acts:** railway · **What happens:** have, use, transport · **To what, where:** little civilian activity, Railway, goods

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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 (railway), 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:350
# text = Currently, the railway has little civilian activity; it is primarily used for transporting goods.
1	Currently	currently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	civilian	civilian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	transporting	transport	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the railway | little civilian activity |  |  |  | currently *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent activity=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | present · passive |  | Railway |  |  |  | primarily *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **transport** | gerund |  | goods |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus goods=Experiencer |

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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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