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title: Arab nationalists led by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser refus… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: Arab nationalists led by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser refused to recognise Israel and called for its destruction. Who acts: Arab nationalists, Plan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 189

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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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Arab nationalists led by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser refused to recognise Israel and called for its destruction.

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**Who acts:** Arab nationalists, Plan · **What happens:** lead, refuse, not recognise, call, destroy · **To what, where:** Arab nationalists, Israel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Arab nationalists, Plan), 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:189
# text = Arab nationalists led by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser refused to recognise Israel and called for its destruction.
1	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	nationalists	nationalist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Gamal	Gamal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Abdel	Abdel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
9	Nasser	Nasser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | participle |  | Arab nationalists *not said here* |  |  |  | Gamal Abdel  Egyptian President *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | Arab nationalists |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **recognise** | to-infinitive | Arab nationalists *not said here* | Israel |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer israel=Stimulus |
| 4 | **call** | participle | Arab nationalists *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Plan's destruction | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for destruction=Recipient |
| 5 | **destroy** |  | Plan |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=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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