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title: Israel's government sits in Jerusalem, which it calls its capital, b… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of the 
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# The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 15

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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.

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**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

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:15
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	embassies	embassy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Tel	tel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	Aviv	aviv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Palestinians	Palestinian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | 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 |

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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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**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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