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title: The opinion is silent as to whether the discrimination amounts to ap… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: The opinion is silent as to whether the discrimination amounts to apartheid; individual judges were split on the question. Who acts: opinion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 398

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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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The opinion is silent as to whether the discrimination amounts to apartheid; individual judges were split on the question.

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**Who acts:** opinion · **What happens:** be, split · **To what, where:** individual judges, question

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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 (opinion), 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:398
# text = The opinion is silent as to whether the discrimination amounts to apartheid; individual judges were split on the question.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	discrimination	discrimination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	apartheid	apartheid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	individual	individual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the opinion |  |  |  |  | as the discrimination amounts to apartheid; silent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **split** | past · passive |  | individual judges |  | the question |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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