--- title: South Africa accused Israel of genocide, trying to destroy a whole p… — Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported · tree and pragmatics description: South Africa accused Israel of genocide, trying to destroy a whole people, at the International Court of Justice, the UN's top court; Israel strongly rejected the claim, and the case was expected to take years. Who acts: South Africa, Israel, case. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (South Africa, Israel, case), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:026-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported.lesson:20 # text = South Africa accused Israel of genocide, trying to destroy a whole people, at the International Court of Justice, the UN's top court; Israel strongly rejected the claim, and the case was expected to take years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 026-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 accused accuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 genocide genocide NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 International International PROPN NNP _ 18 compound _ _ 18 Court Court PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Justice Justice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 23 UN UN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 rejected reject VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accuse** | past | South Africa | Israel | | | | of genocide | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent israel=Theme of genocide=Attribute | | 2 | **try** | gerund | South Africa *not said here* | | | the International Court of Justice | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **destroy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | South Africa *not said here* | a whole people | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 4 | **reject** | past | Israel | the claim | | | | strongly *property* | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | | 5 | **expect** | past · passive | | the case | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the case *not said here* | | | | year | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. 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