Ramallah, sentence 77
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.
About one fourth of Ramallah's 6,000 natives had left by 1956, with Arabs from the surrounding towns and villages (particularly Hebron) buying the homes and land the émigrés left behind.
What happens: leave, buy, land, leave behind · To what, where: one fourth, surrounding towns, homes, émigrés
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: 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 fourth | nummod |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 natives | case |
| 5 | Ramallah | Ramallah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 natives | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Ramallah | case |
| 7 | 6,000 | 6000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 natives | nummod |
| 8 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fourth | nmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 1956 | case |
| 12 | 1956 | 1956 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 left | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Arabs | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Arabs | case |
| 15 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 left | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 towns | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 towns | det |
| 18 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 towns | compound |
| 19 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 left | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 villages | cc |
| 21 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 towns | conj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hebron | punct |
| 23 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 24 Hebron | advmod |
| 24 | Hebron | Hebron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 towns | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hebron | punct |
| 26 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 left | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 homes | det |
| 28 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 buying | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 land | cc |
| 30 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 buying | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 émigrés | det |
| 32 | émigrés | émigré | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 land | obj |
| 33 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 émigrés | acl |
| 34 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 33 left | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect · passive | one fourth of Ramallah's 6,000 natives | the surrounding towns and villages | by 1956; Arabs advcl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by 1956=Location | |||
| 2 | buy | gerund | the homes | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||||
| 3 | land | infinitive | the émigrés | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme émigré=Destination | |||||
| 4 | leave behind | participle | the émigrés not said here | behind property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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