Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported, sentence 20
South Africa accused Israel of genocide, trying to destroy a whole people, at the International Court of Justice, the UN's top court; Israel strongly rejected the claim, and the case was expected to take years.
Who acts: South Africa, Israel, case · What happens: accuse, try, destroy, reject, expect, take · To what, where: Israel, International Court, whole people, claim, case
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 (South Africa, Israel, case), 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 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Africa | compound |
| 2 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 accused | nsubj |
| 3 | accused | accuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 accused | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 genocide | case |
| 6 | genocide | genocide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accused | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trying | punct |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 accused | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 destroy | mark |
| 10 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 destroy | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Court | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Court | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Court | det |
| 17 | International | International | PROPN | _ | 18 Court | compound |
| 18 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 trying | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Justice | case |
| 20 | Justice | Justice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Court | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 court | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 UN | det |
| 23 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 court | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 UN | case |
| 25 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 court | amod |
| 26 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Court | appos |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 rejected | punct |
| 28 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 rejected | nsubj |
| 29 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 30 rejected | advmod |
| 30 | rejected | reject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accused | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 claim | det |
| 32 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rejected | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 expected | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 expected | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 case | det |
| 36 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 expected | aux:pass |
| 38 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 rejected | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 take | mark |
| 40 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 expected | xcomp |
| 41 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 take | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accused | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accuse | past | South Africa | Israel | of genocide | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent israel=Theme of genocide=Attribute | |||
| 2 | try | gerund | South Africa not said here | the International Court of Justice | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | South Africa not said here | a whole people | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 4 | reject | past | Israel | the claim | strongly property | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | |||
| 5 | expect | past · passive | the case | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the case not said here | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:20.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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