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title: In 1985, Israel responded to a Palestinian terrorist attack in Cypru… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1985, Israel responded to a Palestinian terrorist attack in Cyprus by bombing the PLO headquarters in Tunisia. Who acts: Israel. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 224

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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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In 1985, Israel responded to a Palestinian terrorist attack in Cyprus by bombing the PLO headquarters in Tunisia.

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**Who acts:** Israel · **What happens:** respond, bomb · **To what, where:** 1985, PLO headquarters, Tunisia

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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 (Israel), 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:224
# text = In 1985, Israel responded to a Palestinian terrorist attack in Cyprus by bombing the PLO headquarters in Tunisia.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1985	1985	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	terrorist	terrorist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	bombing	bomb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	PLO	PLO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Tunisia	Tunisia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | Israel |  |  | 1985 |  | to a Palestinian terrorist attack in Cyprus | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to attack=Theme |
| 2 | **bomb** | gerund | Israel *not said here* | the PLO headquarters |  | Tunisia |  |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headquarters=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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