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title: In a 2017 poll, 40% of Arab citizens of Israel identified as "Arab i… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: In a 2017 poll, 40% of Arab citizens of Israel identified as "Arab in Israel" or "Arab citizen of Israel", 15% identified as "Palestinian", 8.9% as "Palestinian in Israel" or "Palestinian citizen of Israel", and 8.7% as "Arab"; the same poll found that 60% of Israeli Arabs have a positive view of th
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# Israel, sentence 571

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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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In a 2017 poll, 40% of Arab citizens of Israel identified as "Arab in Israel" or "Arab citizen of Israel", 15% identified as "Palestinian", 8.9% as "Palestinian in Israel" or "Palestinian citizen of Israel", and 8.7% as "Arab"; the same poll found that 60% of Israeli Arabs have a positive view of the state.

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**Who acts:** same poll · **What happens:** identify, find, have, view · **To what, where:** 2017 poll, positive view, state · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (same poll), 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:571
# text = In a 2017 poll, 40% of Arab citizens of Israel identified as "Arab in Israel" or "Arab citizen of Israel", 15% identified as "Palestinian", 8.9% as "Palestinian in Israel" or "Palestinian citizen of Israel", and 8.7% as "Arab"; the same poll found that 60% of Israeli Arabs have a positive view of the state.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	identified	identify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	citizen	citizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
30	identified	identify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	8.9	8.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	33	parataxis	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	acl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	citizen	citizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
53	8.7	8.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl:unmarked	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
63	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
64	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	70	mark	_	_
65	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	66	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	70	nsubj	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	Israeli	Israeli	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
69	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	66	nmod	_	_
70	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	ccomp	_	_
71	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
72	positive	positive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
73	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obj	_	_
74	of	of	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	76	det	_	_
76	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | past |  |  |  | a 2017 poll |  | arab *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **identify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | palestinian *property* | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **find** | past | the same poll |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | a positive view of the state |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient |
| 5 | **view** |  |  | the state |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition 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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