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title: About one fourth of Ramallah's 6,000 natives had left by 1956, with… — Ramallah · tree and pragmatics
description: About one fourth of Ramallah's 6,000 natives had left by 1956, with Arabs from the surrounding towns and villages (particularly Hebron) buying the homes and land the émigrés left behind. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ramallah» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ramallah, sentence 77

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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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About one fourth of Ramallah's 6,000 natives had left by 1956, with Arabs from the surrounding towns and villages (particularly Hebron) buying the homes and land the émigrés left behind.

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**What happens:** leave, buy, land, leave behind · **To what, where:** one fourth, surrounding towns, homes, émigrés

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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:77
# text = About one fourth of Ramallah's 6,000 natives had left by 1956, with Arabs from the surrounding towns and villages (particularly Hebron) buying the homes and land the émigrés left behind.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	Ramallah	Ramallah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	6,000	6000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1956	1956	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	advcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	Hebron	Hebron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	émigrés	émigré	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | one fourth of Ramallah's 6,000 natives |  | the surrounding towns and villages |  | by 1956; Arabs *advcl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by 1956=Location |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund |  | the homes |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 3 | **land** | infinitive |  | the émigrés |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme émigré=Destination |
| 4 | **leave behind** | participle |  | the émigrés *not said here* |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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