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title: Those who went to Palestine were driven primarily by ideas of self-d… — Israel · tree and pragmatics
description: Those who went to Palestine were driven primarily by ideas of self-determination and Jewish identity, rather than as a response to pogroms or economic insecurity. Who acts: ideas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Israel» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Israel, sentence 99

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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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Those who went to Palestine were driven primarily by ideas of self-determination and Jewish identity, rather than as a response to pogroms or economic insecurity.

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**Who acts:** ideas · **What happens:** go, drive · **To what, where:** Palestine, Those

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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 (ideas), 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:99
# text = Those who went to Palestine were driven primarily by ideas of self-determination and Jewish identity, rather than as a response to pogroms or economic insecurity.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Palestine	Palestine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	determination	determination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	23	cc	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	pogroms	pogrom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	insecurity	insecurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  | Palestine |  | who *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palestine=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **drive** | past · passive | ideas of self determination and Jewish identity | Those |  |  |  | a response to pogroms or economic insecurity *parataxis*; primarily *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory |

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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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