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title: Since 1964 Arab countries, concerned over Israeli plans to divert wa… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: Since 1964 Arab countries, concerned over Israeli plans to divert waters of the Jordan River into the coastal plain, had been trying to divert the headwaters to deprive Israel of water resources, provoking tensions between Israel on the one hand, and Syria and Lebanon on the other. A sentence of Wik
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# Israel, sentence 188

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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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Since 1964 Arab countries, concerned over Israeli plans to divert waters of the Jordan River into the coastal plain, had been trying to divert the headwaters to deprive Israel of water resources, provoking tensions between Israel on the one hand, and Syria and Lebanon on the other.

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**What happens:** divert, try, deprive, provoke · **To what, where:** waters, coastal plain, Syria, headwaters, Israel, tensions

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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: 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:188
# text = Since 1964 Arab countries, concerned over Israeli plans to divert waters of the Jordan River into the coastal plain, had been trying to divert the headwaters to deprive Israel of water resources, provoking tensions between Israel on the one hand, and Syria and Lebanon on the other.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	1964	1964	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Israeli	Israeli	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	divert	divert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux	_	_
24	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	divert	divert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	headwaters	headwater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	deprive	deprive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	provoking	provoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	parataxis	_	_
37	tensions	tension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
38	between	between	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divert** | to-infinitive |  | waters of the Jordan River |  | the coastal plain |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus water=Experiencer |
| 2 | **try** | past · perfect · progressive |  | Syria and Lebanon on the other |  |  | since 1964 Arab countries |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **divert** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the headwaters |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus headwater=Experiencer |
| 4 | **deprive** | to-infinitive |  | Israel of water resources |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent israel=Source |
| 5 | **provoke** | gerund |  | tensions |  | the one hand |  | between Israel | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tension=Experiencer |

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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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