Palestine, sentence 47
From Wikipedia, «Palestine», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The 1930s witnessed the outbreak of the Arab Revolt, as Arab nationalists demanded an end to Jewish immigration and the establishment of an independent Arab state.
Who acts: 1930s, Arab nationalists · What happens: witness, demand, establish · To what, where: outbreak, end, independent Arab state
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Palestine». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (1930s, Arab nationalists), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 1930s | det |
| 2 | 1930s | 1930 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 witnessed | nsubj |
| 3 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 outbreak | det |
| 5 | outbreak | outbreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 witnessed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Revolt | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Revolt | det |
| 8 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Revolt | amod |
| 9 | Revolt | Revolt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 outbreak | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 demanded | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 demanded | mark |
| 12 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nationalists | amod |
| 13 | nationalists | nationalist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 demanded | nsubj |
| 14 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 witnessed | conj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 demanded | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 immigration | case |
| 18 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 immigration | amod |
| 19 | immigration | immigration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 demanded | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 establishment | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 establishment | det |
| 22 | establishment | establishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 immigration | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 state | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 state | det |
| 25 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 state | amod |
| 26 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 state | amod |
| 27 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 establishment | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 witnessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | witness | past | the 1930s | the outbreak of the Arab Revolt | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outbreak=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | Arab nationalists | a end | to Jewish immigration and the establishment of a independent Arab state | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme end=Precondition | |||
| 3 | establish | a independent Arab state | nom establishment «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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