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title: On 6 October 1973, the Egyptian and Syrian armies launched a surpris… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: On 6 October 1973, the Egyptian and Syrian armies launched a surprise attack against Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, opening the Yom Kippur War. Who acts: Egyptian armies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 203

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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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On 6 October 1973, the Egyptian and Syrian armies launched a surprise attack against Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, opening the Yom Kippur War.

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**Who acts:** Egyptian armies · **What happens:** launch, open · **To what, where:** surprise attack, Israeli forces, Yom Kippur War

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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 (Egyptian armies), 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:203
# text = On 6 October 1973, the Egyptian and Syrian armies launched a surprise attack against Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, opening the Yom Kippur War.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Israeli	Israeli	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Sinai	Sinai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Golan	Golan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Heights	Height	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	Yom	Yom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	Kippur	Kippur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | past | the Egyptian armies | a surprise attack |  | Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights | october |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent attack=Theme against force=Destination |
| 2 | **open** | gerund | the Egyptian armies *not said here* | the Yom Kippur War |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location war=Theme |

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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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