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title: In the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, the State of Palesti… — Palestine · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, the State of Palestine is described as being established on the "Palestinian territory", without explicitly specifying further. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Palestine» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Palestine, sentence 85

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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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In the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, the State of Palestine is described as being established on the "Palestinian territory", without explicitly specifying further.

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**What happens:** describe, establish, specify · **To what, where:** State, Palestinian Declaration, Palestinian territory

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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: 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:85
# text = In the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, the State of Palestine is described as being established on the "Palestinian territory", without explicitly specifying further.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	_
4	Declaration	Declaration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Palestine	Palestine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	explicitly	explicitly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	specifying	specify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
27	further	further	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive |  | the State of Palestine |  | the Palestinian Declaration of Independence |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **establish** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | the Palestinian territory |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: on territory=Source |
| 3 | **specify** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | explicitly, further *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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