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title: The 1930s witnessed the outbreak of the Arab Revolt, as Arab nationa… — Palestine · tree and pragmatics
description: The 1930s witnessed the outbreak of the Arab Revolt, as Arab nationalists demanded an end to Jewish immigration and the establishment of an independent Arab state. Who acts: 1930s, Arab nationalists. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Palestine» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Palestine, sentence 47

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From Wikipedia, [«Palestine»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine), 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 1930s witnessed the outbreak of the Arab Revolt, as Arab nationalists demanded an end to Jewish immigration and the establishment of an independent Arab state.

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**Who acts:** 1930s, Arab nationalists · **What happens:** witness, demand, establish · **To what, where:** outbreak, end, independent Arab state

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Palestine». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (1930s, Arab nationalists), 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:Palestine:47
# text = The 1930s witnessed the outbreak of the Arab Revolt, as Arab nationalists demanded an end to Jewish immigration and the establishment of an independent Arab state.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	1930s	1930	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	witnessed	witness	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	outbreak	outbreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Revolt	Revolt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	nationalists	nationalist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	immigration	immigration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **witness** | past | the 1930s | the outbreak of the Arab Revolt |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outbreak=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Arab nationalists | a end |  |  |  | to Jewish immigration and the establishment of a independent Arab state | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme end=Precondition |
| 3 | **establish** |  |  | a independent Arab state |  |  |  |  | nom establishment «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Palestine», 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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