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title: In 1922, the League of Nations granted Britain the Mandate for Pales… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1922, the League of Nations granted Britain the Mandate for Palestine under terms which included the Balfour Declaration with its promise to the Jews and with similar provisions regarding the Arab Palestinians. Who acts: League, terms. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree a
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# Israel, sentence 116

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From Wikipedia, [«Israel»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel), 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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In 1922, the League of Nations granted Britain the Mandate for Palestine under terms which included the Balfour Declaration with its promise to the Jews and with similar provisions regarding the Arab Palestinians.

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**Who acts:** League, terms · **What happens:** grant, include, regard, promise · **To what, where:** Mandate, Britain, 1922, Balfour Declaration

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Israel». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (League, terms), 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:Israel:116
# text = In 1922, the League of Nations granted Britain the Mandate for Palestine under terms which included the Balfour Declaration with its promise to the Jews and with similar provisions regarding the Arab Palestinians.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1922	1922	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Mandate	Mandate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Palestine	Palestine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Declaration	Declaration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Arab	Arab	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Palestinians	Palestinian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | past | the League of Nations | the Mandate | Britain | 1922 |  | under terms | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent britain=Goal mandate=Theme |
| 2 | **include** | past | terms | the Balfour Declaration |  |  |  | with League's promise to the Jews regard the Arab Palestinians and similar provisions | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent declaration=Theme |
| 3 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **promise** |  | League |  |  |  |  | to the Jews regard the Arab Palestinians and similar provisions | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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, «Israel», 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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