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title: On the same year, the British Mandatory authorities inaugurated the… — Ramallah · tree and pragmatics
description: On the same year, the British Mandatory authorities inaugurated the state-owned Palestine Broadcasting Service in Ramallah, with BBC members training local radio staff to deliver daily broadcasts in Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Who acts: British Mandatory authorities, BBC members. A sentence of Wiki
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# Ramallah, sentence 66

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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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On the same year, the British Mandatory authorities inaugurated the state-owned Palestine Broadcasting Service in Ramallah, with BBC members training local radio staff to deliver daily broadcasts in Arabic, Hebrew, and English.

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**Who acts:** British Mandatory authorities, BBC members · **What happens:** inaugurate, own, broadcast, train, deliver · **To what, where:** owned Palestine, Service, Ramallah, local radio staff, daily broadcasts, Arabic

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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 (British Mandatory authorities, BBC members), 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:66
# text = On the same year, the British Mandatory authorities inaugurated the state-owned Palestine Broadcasting Service in Ramallah, with BBC members training local radio staff to deliver daily broadcasts in Arabic, Hebrew, and English.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Mandatory	Mandatory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	inaugurated	inaugurate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	Palestine	Palestine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	Broadcasting	broadcast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	Service	Service	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Ramallah	Ramallah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	BBC	BBC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	parataxis	_	_
24	training	train	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	broadcasts	broadcast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Hebrew	Hebrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inaugurate** | past | the British Mandatory authorities | the owned Palestine |  |  | year | English *obl*; BBC members *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **own** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | state *compound* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **broadcast** *speech: other* | gerund | the British Mandatory authorities *not said here* |  | Service | Ramallah |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent service=Recipient |
| 4 | **train** | gerund | BBC members *not said here* | local radio staff |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme |
| 5 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | BBC members *not said here* | daily broadcasts |  | Arabic and Hebrew |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broadcast=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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