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title: Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons and per a 1993… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons and per a 1993 report, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 457

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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 is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons and per a 1993 report, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction.

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**What happens:** believe, possess · **To what, where:** Israel, nuclear weapons

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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: 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:457
# text = Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons and per a 1993 report, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction.
1	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	nuclear	nuclear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	per	per	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	1993	1993	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	chemical	chemical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	biological	biological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present · passive |  | Israel |  |  |  | widely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **possess** | to-infinitive |  | nuclear weapons and a 1993 report and chemical weapons of mass destruction |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot weapon=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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