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title: The status of Jerusalem remains a highly contentious issue, with bot… — Jerusalem · tree and pragmatics
description: The status of Jerusalem remains a highly contentious issue, with both Israelis and Palestinians claiming it as their capital. Who acts: status, Israelis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jerusalem» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jerusalem, sentence 92

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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 status of Jerusalem remains a highly contentious issue, with both Israelis and Palestinians claiming it as their capital.

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**Who acts:** status, Israelis · **What happens:** remain, claim · **To what, where:** contentious issue, status

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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 (status, Israelis), 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:92
# text = The status of Jerusalem remains a highly contentious issue, with both Israelis and Palestinians claiming it as their capital.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	contentious	contentious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	Israelis	Israeli	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Palestinians	Palestinian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	claiming	claim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | the status of Jerusalem | a contentious issue |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme issue=Attribute |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | gerund | both Israelis and Palestinians | status |  |  |  | as Israelis's capital | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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