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title: Located near continental crossroads, its demographics shifted under… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: Located near continental crossroads, its demographics shifted under various empires. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 6

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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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Located near continental crossroads, its demographics shifted under various empires.

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**What happens:** locate, shift · **To what, where:** continental crossroads, demographics, various empires

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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:6
# text = Located near continental crossroads, its demographics shifted under various empires.
1	Located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	near	near	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	crossroads	crossroad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	demographics	demographic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	shifted	shift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | participle |  |  |  | continental crossroads and centre's demographics |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shift** | participle |  | centre's demographics *not said here* |  | various empires |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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