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title: The United States and the Soviet Union were the first two countries… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: The United States and the Soviet Union were the first two countries to recognise the State of Israel, having declared recognition roughly simultaneously. Who acts: United States. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 408

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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 United States and the Soviet Union were the first two countries to recognise the State of Israel, having declared recognition roughly simultaneously.

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**Who acts:** United States · **What happens:** be, recognise, have, declare · **To what, where:** first two countries, State, declared recognition

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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 (United States), 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:408
# text = The United States and the Soviet Union were the first two countries to recognise the State of Israel, having declared recognition roughly simultaneously.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
21	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	recognition	recognition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the United States and the Soviet Union | the first two countries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recognise** | to-infinitive |  | the State of Israel |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer state=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  | declared recognition |  |  |  | simultaneously *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recognition=Patient |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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