--- title: The Washington Post**s 2021 survey of scholars and academic experts… — Israel · tree and pragmatics description: The Washington Post**s 2021 survey of scholars and academic experts on the Middle East found an increase from 59% to 65% of these scholars describing Israel as a "one-state reality akin to apartheid". Who acts: Washington Post, 2021 survey, scholars. 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The Washington Post\*\*s 2021 survey of scholars and academic experts on the Middle East found an increase from 59% to 65% of these scholars describing Israel as a "one-state reality akin to apartheid". **Who acts:** Washington Post, 2021 survey, scholars · **What happens:** be, find, describe · **To what, where:** 2021 survey, increase, Israel 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 (Washington Post, 2021 survey, scholars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:389 # text = The Washington Post**s 2021 survey of scholars and academic experts on the Middle East found an increase from 59% to 65% of these scholars describing Israel as a "one-state reality akin to apartheid". 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Washington Washington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Post Post PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ** ** PUNCT NFP _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 survey survey NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 scholars scholar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 academic academic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Middle Middle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 increase increase NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 59 59 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 65 65 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 scholars scholar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 describing describe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 reality reality NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 38 akin akin ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 apartheid apartheid NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Washington Post | 2021 survey | | | | of scholars and academic experts on the Middle East | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | past | 2021 survey | a increase | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent increase=Theme from %=Source | | 3 | **describe** | gerund | this scholars *not said here* | Israel | | | | as a state reality; to apartheid | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent israel=Theme as reality=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 388](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Israel/388/) - next →: [sentence 390](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Israel/390/) - ↑ back to [Israel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Israel/)