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title: Several hundred British security personnel and Jews were killed; 5,0… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: Several hundred British security personnel and Jews were killed; 5,032 Arabs were killed, 14,760 wounded, and 12,622 detained. Who acts: Several security personnel, 12,622. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 121

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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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Several hundred British security personnel and Jews were killed; 5,032 Arabs were killed, 14,760 wounded, and 12,622 detained.

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**Who acts:** Several security personnel, 12,622 · **What happens:** kill, detain · **To what, where:** Jews, 5,032 Arabs, Several security personnel

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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 (Several security personnel, 12,622), 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:121
# text = Several hundred British security personnel and Jews were killed; 5,032 Arabs were killed, 14,760 wounded, and 12,622 detained.
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	personnel	personnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	5,032	5,032	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	14,760	14,760	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	12,622	12,622	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	_
21	detained	detain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · passive |  | Jews |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past · passive | Several security personnel *not said here* | 5,032 Arabs |  |  |  | 14,760 *obl:unmarked* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **detain** | past | 12,622 |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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