Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported, sentence 11
On 7 October 2023 Hamas fighters broke into southern Israel; news reports said about 1,200 people were killed, most of them civilians, and about 250 were taken to Gaza as hostages.
Who acts: Hamas fighters, news reports, most · What happens: break, say, kill, civilian, take · To what, where: southern Israel, 1,200 people, 250, Gaza · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hamas fighters, news reports, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 October | case |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 October | nummod |
| 3 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obl |
| 4 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 October | flat |
| 5 | Hamas | Hamas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fighters | compound |
| 6 | fighters | fighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 broke | nsubj |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 Israel | case |
| 9 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Israel | amod |
| 10 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reports | compound |
| 13 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 broke | parataxis |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 1,200 | advmod |
| 16 | 1,200 | 1200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 people | nummod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 killed | aux:pass |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 civilians | punct |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 civilians | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 most | nmod |
| 24 | civilians | civilian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 people | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 taken | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 taken | cc |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 250 | advmod |
| 28 | 250 | 250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 taken | aux:pass |
| 30 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 killed | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Gaza | case |
| 32 | Gaza | Gaza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 taken | obl |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 hostages | case |
| 34 | hostages | hostage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 taken | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Hamas fighters | october | into southern Israel result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into israel=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | news reports | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | 1,200 people and civilians | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | civilian | most of peoples | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | take | past · passive | 250 | Gaza | as hostages | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to gaza=Destination |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:politics:026-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported.lesson:11.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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