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title: The longest-serving Jerusalem mayor is Teddy Kollek, who spent 28 ye… — Jerusalem · tree and pragmatics
description: The longest-serving Jerusalem mayor is Teddy Kollek, who spent 28 years—six consecutive terms—in office. Who acts: Jerusalem mayor, Teddy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jerusalem» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jerusalem, sentence 184

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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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The longest-serving Jerusalem mayor is Teddy Kollek, who spent 28 years—six consecutive terms—in office.

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**Who acts:** Jerusalem mayor, Teddy · **What happens:** serve, be, spend · **To what, where:** Teddy, six consecutive terms

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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 (Jerusalem mayor, Teddy), 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:184
# text = The longest-serving Jerusalem mayor is Teddy Kollek, who spent 28 years—six consecutive terms—in office.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	Kollek	Kollek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	consecutive	consecutive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Jerusalem mayor | Teddy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spend** | past | Teddy | six consecutive terms and office |  |  | year |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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