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title: Israel has no official religion, but the definition of the state as… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: Israel has no official religion, but the definition of the state as "Jewish and democratic" creates a strong connection with Judaism. Who acts: Israel, definition. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 325

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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 no official religion, but the definition of the state as "Jewish and democratic" creates a strong connection with Judaism.

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**Who acts:** Israel, definition · **What happens:** have, create, define · **To what, where:** official religion, strong connection, state

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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, definition), 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:325
# text = Israel has no official religion, but the definition of the state as "Jewish and democratic" creates a strong connection with Judaism.
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	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	definition	definition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	creates	create	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Judaism	Judaism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 | no official religion |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Patient |
| 2 | **create** | present | the definition of the state  Jewish | a strong connection |  |  |  | with Judaism | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Result |
| 3 | **define** |  |  | the state  Jewish |  |  |  |  | nom definition «communication transitive»: of=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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