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title: Synagogues around the world are traditionally built with the Holy Ar… — Jerusalem · tree and pragmatics
description: Synagogues around the world are traditionally built with the Holy Ark facing Jerusalem, and Arks within Jerusalem face the Holy of Holies. Who acts: Holy Ark, Arks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jerusalem» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jerusalem, sentence 296

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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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Synagogues around the world are traditionally built with the Holy Ark facing Jerusalem, and Arks within Jerusalem face the Holy of Holies.

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**Who acts:** Holy Ark, Arks · **What happens:** build, face · **To what, where:** Synagogues, Jerusalem, Holy

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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 (Holy Ark, Arks), 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:296
# text = Synagogues around the world are traditionally built with the Holy Ark facing Jerusalem, and Arks within Jerusalem face the Holy of Holies.
1	Synagogues	synagogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	11	compound	_	_
11	Ark	Ark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	Arks	ark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Holies	holy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | present · passive |  | Synagogues around the world |  |  |  | with the Holy Ark; traditionally *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with ark=Source |
| 2 | **face** | gerund | the Holy Ark *not said here* |  | Jerusalem |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jerusalem=Destination |
| 3 | **face** | present | Arks within Jerusalem |  | the Holy of Holies |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme holy=Destination |

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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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