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title: Jerusalem is the government seat and proclaimed capital, while Tel A… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: Jerusalem is the government seat and proclaimed capital, while Tel Aviv is Israel's largest urban area and economic centre. Who acts: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 4

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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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Jerusalem is the government seat and proclaimed capital, while Tel Aviv is Israel's largest urban area and economic centre.

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**Who acts:** Jerusalem, Tel Aviv · **What happens:** be, proclaim · **To what, where:** government seat, capital, largest urban area

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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 (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv), 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:4
# text = Jerusalem is the government seat and proclaimed capital, while Tel Aviv is Israel's largest urban area and economic centre.
1	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	Tel	Tel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Aviv	Aviv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
17	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Jerusalem | the government seat and Israel's largest urban area and economic centre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **proclaim** | past | Jerusalem *not said here* | capital |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Tel Aviv | Israel's largest urban area and economic centre |  |  |  | Israel *nmod:poss*; economic centre *conj* | tree rules |

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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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