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title: On 1 December 1947, the Arab Higher Committee proclaimed a three-day… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: On 1 December 1947, the Arab Higher Committee proclaimed a three-day strike, and riots broke out in Jerusalem. Who acts: Arab Higher Committee, riots. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 150

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From Wikipedia, [«Israel»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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On 1 December 1947, the Arab Higher Committee proclaimed a three-day strike, and riots broke out in Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** Arab Higher Committee, riots · **What happens:** proclaim, break out · **To what, where:** day strike, 1, Jerusalem

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Israel». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arab Higher Committee, riots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Israel:150
# text = On 1 December 1947, the Arab Higher Committee proclaimed a three-day strike, and riots broke out in Jerusalem.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
3	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1947	1947	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Arab	Arab	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Higher	High	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Committee	Committee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	riots	riot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proclaim** | past | the Arab Higher Committee | a day strike |  | 1  1947  December |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Theme |
| 2 | **break out** | past | riots |  |  | Jerusalem |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jerusalem=Location |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Israel», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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