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title: Israel was founded in 1948; Jewish people celebrate its independence… — Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported · tree and pragmatics
description: Israel was founded in 1948; Jewish people celebrate its independence, while Palestinians mourn the Nakba, «the catastrophe», when hundreds of thousands fled or were forced from their homes. Who acts: Jewish people, Palestinians, hundreds. A sentence of the lesson «Israel and Gaza: what happened, as 
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# Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported, sentence 21

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Israel was founded in 1948; Jewish people celebrate its independence, while Palestinians mourn the Nakba, «the catastrophe», when hundreds of thousands fled or were forced from their homes.

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**Who acts:** Jewish people, Palestinians, hundreds · **What happens:** found, celebrate, mourn, flee, force · **To what, where:** Israel, 1948, independence, Nakba, homes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jewish people, Palestinians, hundreds), 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:21
# text = Israel was founded in 1948; Jewish people celebrate its independence, while Palestinians mourn the Nakba, «the catastrophe», when hundreds of thousands fled or were forced from their homes.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1948	1948	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	Palestinians	Palestinian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	mourn	mourn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Nakba	Nakba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
25	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past · passive |  | Israel |  | 1948 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **celebrate** | present | Jewish people | case's independence |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
| 3 | **mourn** | present | Palestinians | the Nakba |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nakba=Stimulus |
| 4 | **flee** | past | hundreds of thousands |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **force** | past · passive | hundreds of thousands *not said here* |  |  | peoples's homes |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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