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title: Transjordan prospered during the Byzantine era, and Christian church… — Jordan · tree and pragmatics
description: Transjordan prospered during the Byzantine era, and Christian churches were built throughout the region. Who acts: Transjordan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jordan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jordan, sentence 83

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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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Transjordan prospered during the Byzantine era, and Christian churches were built throughout the region.

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**Who acts:** Transjordan · **What happens:** prosper, build · **To what, where:** Christian churches

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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 (Transjordan), 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:83
# text = Transjordan prospered during the Byzantine era, and Christian churches were built throughout the region.
1	Transjordan	Transjordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	prospered	prosper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prosper** | past | Transjordan |  |  |  | during the Byzantine era |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | past · passive |  | Christian churches |  |  | throughout the region |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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