--- title: The Nabataean Kingdom controlled much of the trade routes of the reg… — Jordan · tree and pragmatics description: The Nabataean Kingdom controlled much of the trade routes of the region, and it stretched south along the Red Sea coast into the Hejaz desert, up to as far north as Damascus, which it controlled for a short period (85–71 BC). Who acts: Nabataean Kingdom, Kingdom. 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The Nabataean Kingdom controlled much of the trade routes of the region, and it stretched south along the Red Sea coast into the Hejaz desert, up to as far north as Damascus, which it controlled for a short period (85–71 BC). **Who acts:** Nabataean Kingdom, Kingdom · **What happens:** control, stretch · **To what, where:** much, Hejaz desert, Damascus 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 (Nabataean Kingdom, Kingdom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:71 # text = The Nabataean Kingdom controlled much of the trade routes of the region, and it stretched south along the Red Sea coast into the Hejaz desert, up to as far north as Damascus, which it controlled for a short period (85–71 BC). 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Nabataean Nabataean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Kingdom Kingdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 controlled control VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 routes route NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 south south ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 along along ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Hejaz Hejaz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 up up ADP RB _ 34 case _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 as as ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 32 north north ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Damascus Damascus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 controlled control VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 85 85 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 46 case _ SpaceAfter=No 46 71 71 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 nmod _ _ 47 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **control** | past | the Nabataean Kingdom | much of the trade routes of the region | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | | 2 | **stretch** | past | Kingdom | | | the Hejaz desert | | along the Sea coast; up Damascus; south *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along coast=Location | | 3 | **control** | past | Kingdom | Damascus | | | | for a short period; 85 – 71 BC *obl* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Jordan/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Jordan/72/) - ↑ back to [Jordan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Jordan/)