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title: After suicide bombings in Haifa, Arafat was confined to the Ramallah… — Ramallah · tree and pragmatics
description: After suicide bombings in Haifa, Arafat was confined to the Ramallah compound. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ramallah» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ramallah, sentence 129

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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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After suicide bombings in Haifa, Arafat was confined to the Ramallah compound.

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**What happens:** confine · **To what, where:** Arafat, Ramallah compound

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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:129
# text = After suicide bombings in Haifa, Arafat was confined to the Ramallah compound.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	suicide	suicide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bombings	bombing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Haifa	Haifa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Arafat	Arafat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Ramallah	Ramallah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	compound	compound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confine** | past · passive |  | Arafat |  | the Ramallah compound | after suicide bombings in Haifa |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to compound=Destination |

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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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