The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 15
Israel's government sits in Jerusalem, which it calls its capital, but most countries keep their embassies in Tel Aviv because Jerusalem's status is disputed, and Palestinians seek East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.
Who acts: government, most countries, Palestinians · What happens: sit, call, keep, dispute, seek · To what, where: Jerusalem, embassies, Tel Aviv, status, East · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (government, most countries, Palestinians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 government | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Israel | case |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | nsubj |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Jerusalem | case |
| 6 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 calls | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 calls | obj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 calls | nsubj |
| 10 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Jerusalem | acl:relcl |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 capital | nmod:poss |
| 12 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 calls | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 keep | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 keep | cc |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 countries | amod |
| 16 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sits | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 embassies | nmod:poss |
| 19 | embassies | embassy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 keep | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Aviv | case |
| 21 | Tel | tel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Aviv | compound |
| 22 | Aviv | aviv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obl |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 disputed | mark |
| 24 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 status | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Jerusalem | case |
| 26 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 disputed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 disputed | aux:pass |
| 28 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 keep | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seek | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Palestinians | cc |
| 31 | Palestinians | Palestinian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 32 seek | nsubj |
| 32 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sits | conj |
| 33 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 seek | obj |
| 34 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 East | flat |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 capital | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 capital | det |
| 37 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seek | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 state | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 state | det |
| 40 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 state | amod |
| 41 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 capital | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | Israel's government | Jerusalem | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in jerusalem=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | present | government | Jerusalem | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme capital=Result | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | most countries | countries's embassies | Tel Aviv | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent embassy=Theme in aviv=Location | |||
| 4 | dispute | present · passive | Jerusalem's status | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | seek | present | Palestinians | East | as the capital of a future state | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent east=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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:geography:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:15.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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