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title: Israel has the largest number of plant species per square metre of t… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: Israel has the largest number of plant species per square metre of the countries in the Mediterranean Basin and contains four terrestrial ecoregions: Eastern Mediterranean conifer–sclerophyllous–broadleaf forests, Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests, Arabian Desert, and Mesopota
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# Israel, sentence 285

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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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Israel has the largest number of plant species per square metre of the countries in the Mediterranean Basin and contains four terrestrial ecoregions: Eastern Mediterranean conifer–sclerophyllous–broadleaf forests, Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests, Arabian Desert, and Mesopotamian shrub desert.

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**Who acts:** Israel · **What happens:** have, contain · **To what, where:** largest number, four terrestrial ecoregions

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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:285
# text = Israel has the largest number of plant species per square metre of the countries in the Mediterranean Basin and contains four terrestrial ecoregions: Eastern Mediterranean conifer–sclerophyllous–broadleaf forests, Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests, Arabian Desert, and Mesopotamian shrub desert.
1	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	per	per	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Basin	Basin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	terrestrial	terrestrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ecoregions	ecoregion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	conifer	conifer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	sclerophyllous	sclerophyllous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	broadleaf	broadleaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	Anatolian	Anatolian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	montane	montane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	conifer	conifer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	deciduous	deciduous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	Mesopotamian	mesopotamian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
47	shrub	shrub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Israel | the largest number of plant species per square metre of the countries in the Mediterranean Basin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 2 | **contain** | present | Israel *not said here* | four terrestrial ecoregions |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ecoregion=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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