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title: A poll conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Public Opinion and Am… — Jerusalem · tree and pragmatics
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# Jerusalem, sentence 128

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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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A poll conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Public Opinion and American Pechter Middle East Polls for the Council on Foreign Relations among East Jerusalem Arab residents in 2011 revealed that 39% of East Jerusalem Arab residents would prefer Israeli citizenship, while 31% opted for Palestinian citizenship.

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**Who acts:** poll · **What happens:** conduct, reveal, prefer, opt · **To what, where:** poll, Foreign Relations, Israeli citizenship

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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 (poll), 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:128
# text = A poll conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Public Opinion and American Pechter Middle East Polls for the Council on Foreign Relations among East Jerusalem Arab residents in 2011 revealed that 39% of East Jerusalem Arab residents would prefer Israeli citizenship, while 31% opted for Palestinian citizenship.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
3	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	compound	_	_
7	Centre	Centre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Public	Public	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Opinion	Opinion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	Pechter	Pechter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Polls	poll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	_
30	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
32	39	39	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	prefer	prefer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
41	Israeli	Israeli	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	citizenship	citizenship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	opted	opt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	citizenship	citizenship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | participle |  | a poll *not said here* |  | Foreign Relations among Jerusalem Arab residents in 2011 |  | for Public Opinion and American East Polls for the Council; the Palestinian Centre *obl:agent* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on relation=Destination |
| 2 | **reveal** | past | a poll |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **prefer** | would |  | Israeli citizenship |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer citizenship=Stimulus |
| 4 | **opt** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for Palestinian citizenship | 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, «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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