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title: In 1988, the Israeli government ordered the closure of Orient House,… — Jerusalem · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1988, the Israeli government ordered the closure of Orient House, home of the Arab Studies Society and headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization, for security reasons. Who acts: Israeli government, Orient House. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jerusalem» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Jerusalem, sentence 101

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From Wikipedia, [«Jerusalem»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem), 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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In 1988, the Israeli government ordered the closure of Orient House, home of the Arab Studies Society and headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization, for security reasons.

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**Who acts:** Israeli government, Orient House · **What happens:** order, close · **To what, where:** closure, 1988

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jerusalem». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Israeli government, Orient House), 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:Jerusalem:101
# text = In 1988, the Israeli government ordered the closure of Orient House, home of the Arab Studies Society and headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization, for security reasons.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Israeli	Israeli	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	closure	closure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Orient	orient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	House	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Arab	Arab	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Studies	Study	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	compound	_	_
19	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Palestine	Palestine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Liberation	Liberation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Organization	Organization	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | the Israeli government | the closure of Orient House |  | 1988 |  | for security reasons | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent closure=Theme for reason=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **close** |  | Orient House |  |  |  |  |  | nom closure «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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, «Jerusalem», 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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