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title: Jews were expelled from the districts surrounding Jerusalem. — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: Jews were expelled from the districts surrounding Jerusalem. Who acts: districts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 64

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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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Jews were expelled from the districts surrounding Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** districts · **What happens:** expel, surround · **To what, where:** Jews, districts, 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 (districts), 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:64
# text = Jews were expelled from the districts surrounding Jerusalem.
1	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	expelled	expel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expel** | past · passive |  | Jews |  | the districts |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from district=Source |
| 2 | **surround** | gerund | the districts *not said here* | Jerusalem |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jerusalem=Co-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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**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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