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title: Israel acknowledged the PLO negotiating team as "representing the Pa… — Palestine · tree and pragmatics
description: Israel acknowledged the PLO negotiating team as "representing the Palestinian people", in return for the PLO recognizing Israel's right to exist in peace, acceptance of UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, and its rejection of "violence and terrorism". Who acts: Israel, return, peace. A sent
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# Palestine, sentence 98

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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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Israel acknowledged the PLO negotiating team as "representing the Palestinian people", in return for the PLO recognizing Israel's right to exist in peace, acceptance of UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, and its rejection of "violence and terrorism".

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**Who acts:** Israel, return, peace · **What happens:** acknowledge, negotiate, represent, recognize, exist, accept · **To what, where:** PLO, team, Palestinian people, right, peace, Council resolutions

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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 (Israel, return, peace), 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:98
# text = Israel acknowledged the PLO negotiating team as "representing the Palestinian people", in return for the PLO recognizing Israel's right to exist in peace, acceptance of UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, and its rejection of "violence and terrorism".
1	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	PLO	PLO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	negotiating	negotiate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	PLO	PLO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	recognizing	recognize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	acceptance	acceptance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	Security	Security	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	resolutions	resolution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
35	242	242	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	338	338	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	rejection	rejection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	terrorism	terrorism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acknowledge** | past | Israel | the PLO |  |  |  | peace's rejection of violence and terrorism *obl* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plo=Topic |
| 2 | **negotiate** | gerund | Israel *not said here* | team |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **represent** *in a quote* | gerund | Israel *not said here* | the Palestinian people |  |  |  | in return for the PLO | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot people=Theme in return=Attribute |
| 4 | **recognize** | gerund | return for the PLO *not said here* | Israel's right |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus |
| 5 | **exist** | to-infinitive | return for the PLO *not said here* | Israel's right *not said here* |  | peace and acceptance of Council resolutions |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
| 6 | **accept** |  |  | Council resolutions |  |  |  |  | nom acceptance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **reject** |  | peace | violence and terrorism |  |  |  |  | nom rejection «act transitive»: poss=agent 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, «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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