Ramallah, sentence 66
From Wikipedia, «Ramallah», 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.
On the same year, the British Mandatory authorities inaugurated the state-owned Palestine Broadcasting Service in Ramallah, with BBC members training local radio staff to deliver daily broadcasts in Arabic, Hebrew, and English.
Who acts: British Mandatory authorities, BBC members · What happens: inaugurate, own, broadcast, train, deliver · To what, where: owned Palestine, Service, Ramallah, local radio staff, daily broadcasts, Arabic
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ramallah». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British Mandatory authorities, BBC members), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 year | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 year | amod |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inaugurated | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 authorities | det |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 authorities | amod |
| 8 | Mandatory | Mandatory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 authorities | compound |
| 9 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 inaugurated | nsubj |
| 10 | inaugurated | inaugurate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Palestine | det |
| 12 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 owned | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 state | punct |
| 14 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Palestine | amod |
| 15 | Palestine | Palestine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 inaugurated | obj |
| 16 | Broadcasting | broadcast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 inaugurated | advcl |
| 17 | Service | Service | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Broadcasting | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Ramallah | case |
| 19 | Ramallah | Ramallah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Broadcasting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 members | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 members | case |
| 22 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 members | compound |
| 23 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 inaugurated | parataxis |
| 24 | training | train | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 members | acl |
| 25 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 staff | amod |
| 26 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 staff | compound |
| 27 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 training | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 deliver | mark |
| 29 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 training | advcl |
| 30 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 broadcasts | amod |
| 31 | broadcasts | broadcast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 deliver | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Arabic | case |
| 33 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 broadcasts | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Hebrew | punct |
| 35 | Hebrew | Hebrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Arabic | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 English | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 English | cc |
| 38 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 inaugurated | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 inaugurated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inaugurate | past | the British Mandatory authorities | the owned Palestine | year | English obl; BBC members parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 2 | own | participle | state compound | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | broadcast speech: other | gerund | the British Mandatory authorities not said here | Service | Ramallah | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent service=Recipient | |||
| 4 | train | gerund | BBC members not said here | local radio staff | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme | ||||
| 5 | deliver | to-infinitive | BBC members not said here | daily broadcasts | Arabic and Hebrew | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broadcast=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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