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title: In 1995 the United States Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act,… — Jerusalem · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1995 the United States Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which required, subject to conditions, that its embassy be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Who acts: States Congress, Jerusalem Embassy Act. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jerusalem» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jerusalem, sentence 143

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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 1995 the United States Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which required, subject to conditions, that its embassy be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** States Congress, Jerusalem Embassy Act · **What happens:** pass, require, move · **To what, where:** Jerusalem Embassy Act, 1995, subject, embassy, Jerusalem, Tel

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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 (States Congress, Jerusalem Embassy Act), 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:143
# text = In 1995 the United States Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which required, subject to conditions, that its embassy be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Embassy	Embassy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	embassy	embassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Tel	Tel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	Aviv	Aviv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the States Congress | the Jerusalem Embassy Act |  | 1995 |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent act=Theme in 1995=Destination |
| 2 | **require** | past | the Jerusalem Embassy Act | subject |  |  |  | to conditions | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Precondition |
| 3 | **move** | infinitive · passive |  | Congress's embassy | Jerusalem | Tel |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Extent from tel=Initial\_State to jerusalem=Result |

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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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