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title: However, the demographic makeup of the town changed drastically unde… — Ramallah · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the demographic makeup of the town changed drastically under Jordanian occupation, when considerable emigration of Christians took place. Who acts: demographic makeup, Christians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ramallah» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ramallah, sentence 182

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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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However, the demographic makeup of the town changed drastically under Jordanian occupation, when considerable emigration of Christians took place.

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**Who acts:** demographic makeup, Christians · **What happens:** change, take · **To what, where:** Jordanian occupation, place

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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: who acts (demographic makeup, Christians), 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:182
# text = However, the demographic makeup of the town changed drastically under Jordanian occupation, when considerable emigration of Christians took place.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	demographic	demographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	makeup	makeup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	drastically	drastically	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Jordanian	jordanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	emigration	emigration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | the demographic makeup of the town |  |  | Jordanian occupation |  | drastically, however *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | Christians | place |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |

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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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