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title: American cars, mechanized farming equipment, radios, and later telev… — Ramallah · tree and pragmatics
description: American cars, mechanized farming equipment, radios, and later televisions became attainable luxuries for upper-class families. Who acts: American cars. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ramallah» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ramallah, sentence 222

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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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American cars, mechanized farming equipment, radios, and later televisions became attainable luxuries for upper-class families.

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**Who acts:** American cars · **What happens:** mechanize, become · **To what, where:** attainable luxuries

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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 (American cars), 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:222
# text = American cars, mechanized farming equipment, radios, and later televisions became attainable luxuries for upper-class families.
1	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	mechanized	mechanize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	farming	farming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	equipment	equipment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	radios	radio	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
12	televisions	television	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	attainable	attainable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	luxuries	luxury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	xcomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mechanize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past | American cars  mechanized farming equipment and radios | attainable luxuries for class families |  |  |  | televisions *nsubj*; late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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