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title: It describes itself as the "only Arab university in Jerusalem". — Jerusalem · tree and pragmatics
description: It describes itself as the "only Arab university in Jerusalem". Who acts: package. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jerusalem» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jerusalem, sentence 428

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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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It describes itself as the "only Arab university in Jerusalem".

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**Who acts:** package · **What happens:** describe · **To what, where:** package

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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 (package), 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:428
# text = It describes itself as the "only Arab university in Jerusalem".
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | package | package |  |  |  | as the Arab university in Jerusalem | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent itself=Theme as university=Attribute |

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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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