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title: The airport is sought to be a joint Israeli-Palestinian airport. — Jerusalem · tree and pragmatics
description: The airport is sought to be a joint Israeli-Palestinian airport. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jerusalem» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jerusalem, sentence 407

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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 airport is sought to be a joint Israeli-Palestinian airport.

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**What happens:** seek, be · **To what, where:** airport, joint Palestinian airport

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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: 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:407
# text = The airport is sought to be a joint Israeli-Palestinian airport.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	joint	joint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	Israeli	Israeli	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · passive |  | the airport |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a joint Palestinian airport |  |  |  |  | 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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