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title: Meanwhile, the Jewish insurgency continued and peaked in July 1947,… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, the Jewish insurgency continued and peaked in July 1947, with a series of widespread guerrilla raids culminating in the Sergeants affair, in which the Irgun took two British sergeants hostage as attempted leverage against the planned execution of three Irgun operatives. Who acts: widespre
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# Israel, sentence 140

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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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Meanwhile, the Jewish insurgency continued and peaked in July 1947, with a series of widespread guerrilla raids culminating in the Sergeants affair, in which the Irgun took two British sergeants hostage as attempted leverage against the planned execution of three Irgun operatives.

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**Who acts:** widespread guerrilla raids, Irgun · **What happens:** continue, peak, culminate, take, attempt, plan · **To what, where:** Jewish insurgency, Sergeants affair, sergeants hostage, three Irgun operatives

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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 (widespread guerrilla raids, Irgun), 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:140
# text = Meanwhile, the Jewish insurgency continued and peaked in July 1947, with a series of widespread guerrilla raids culminating in the Sergeants affair, in which the Irgun took two British sergeants hostage as attempted leverage against the planned execution of three Irgun operatives.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	insurgency	insurgency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	peaked	peak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	1947	1947	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	guerrilla	guerrilla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	raids	raid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	culminating	culminate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Sergeants	Sergeant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	compound	_	_
24	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Irgun	Irgun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
32	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sergeants	sergeant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	compound	_	_
34	hostage	hostage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	leverage	leverage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	against	against	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	execution	execution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
44	Irgun	Irgun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	operatives	operative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | participle · passive |  | the Jewish insurgency |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **peak** | participle |  |  |  |  | july | with a series of widespread guerrilla raids | tree rules |
| 3 | **culminate** | gerund | widespread guerrilla raids *not said here* |  |  | the Sergeants affair |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past | the Irgun | sergeants hostage |  |  |  | as attempted leverage against the planned execution of three Irgun operatives; which *obl* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent hostage=Theme as leverage=Attribute |
| 5 | **attempt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **plan** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **execute** |  |  | three Irgun operatives |  |  |  |  | nom execution «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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