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title: The ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict dates back to the rise of t… — Palestine · tree and pragmatics
description: The ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict dates back to the rise of the Zionist movement, supported by the United Kingdom during World War I. The war saw Britain occupying Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, where it set up Mandatory Palestine under the auspices of the League of Nations. Who acts: ong
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# Palestine, sentence 11

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From Wikipedia, [«Palestine»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine), 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 ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict dates back to the rise of the Zionist movement, supported by the United Kingdom during World War I. The war saw Britain occupying Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, where it set up Mandatory Palestine under the auspices of the League of Nations.

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**Who acts:** ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict, war, Britain, Zionist movement · **What happens:** date back, support, see, occupy, set up, rise · **To what, where:** Zionist movement, Britain, Palestine, Ottoman Empire, Mandatory Palestine, auspices

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Palestine». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict, war, Britain, Zionist movement), 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:Palestine:11
# text = The ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict dates back to the rise of the Zionist movement, supported by the United Kingdom during World War I. The war saw Britain occupying Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, where it set up Mandatory Palestine under the auspices of the League of Nations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	ongoing	ongoing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	Israeli	Israeli	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dates	date	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Zionist	Zionist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	21	flat	_	_
21	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl:agent	_	_
22	during	during	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
29	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	occupying	occupy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	_
31	Palestine	Palestine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Ottoman	Ottoman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	Mandatory	Mandatory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Palestine	Palestine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	under	under	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	auspices	auspices	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **date back** | present | the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict |  |  |  |  | to the rise of the Zionist movement | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **support** | participle |  | the Zionist movement *not said here* |  |  |  | the United Kingdom *obl:agent* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | past | the war | Britain |  |  | during World War I. |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **occupy** | gerund | Britain *not said here* | Palestine |  | the Ottoman Empire |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus palestine=Experiencer |
| 5 | **set up** | past | war | Mandatory Palestine |  | the auspices of the League of Nations |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palestine=Theme under auspices=Destination |
| 6 | **rise** |  | the Zionist movement |  |  |  |  |  | nom rise «event intransitive»: of=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, «Palestine», 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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