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title: Army checkpoints were established to restrict movement in and out of… — Ramallah · tree and pragmatics
description: Army checkpoints were established to restrict movement in and out of Ramallah. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ramallah» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ramallah, sentence 113

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From Wikipedia, [«Ramallah»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramallah), 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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Army checkpoints were established to restrict movement in and out of Ramallah.

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**What happens:** establish, restrict · **To what, where:** Army checkpoints, movement

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ramallah». 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:Ramallah:113
# text = Army checkpoints were established to restrict movement in and out of Ramallah.
1	Army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	checkpoints	checkpoint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	restrict	restrict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ramallah	Ramallah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	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 | **establish** | past · passive |  | Army checkpoints |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **restrict** | to-infinitive |  | movement |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer movement=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, «Ramallah», 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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