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title: The Greco-Roman period saw the establishment of several cities in Tr… — Jordan · tree and pragmatics
description: The Greco-Roman period saw the establishment of several cities in Transjordan that comprised the Decapolis. Who acts: Greco Roman period, establishment. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jordan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jordan, sentence 8

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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 Greco-Roman period saw the establishment of several cities in Transjordan that comprised the Decapolis.

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**Who acts:** Greco Roman period, establishment · **What happens:** see, comprise, establish · **To what, where:** establishment, Decapolis, several cities

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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 (Greco Roman period, establishment), 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:8
# text = The Greco-Roman period saw the establishment of several cities in Transjordan that comprised the Decapolis.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Greco	Greco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Transjordan	Transjordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	comprised	comprise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Decapolis	Decapolis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Greco Roman period | the establishment of several cities in Transjordan |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer establishment=Stimulus |
| 2 | **comprise** | past | the establishment of several cities in Transjordan | the Decapolis |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme decapolis=Pivot |
| 3 | **establish** |  |  | several cities in Transjordan |  |  |  |  | nom establishment «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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