Jordan, sentence 173
From Wikipedia, «Jordan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In September 1970, the Jordanian army targeted the fedayeen and the resultant fighting led to the expulsion of Palestinian fighters from various PLO groups into Lebanon, in a conflict that became known as Black September.
Who acts: Jordanian army, resultant, conflict · What happens: target, fight, lead, become, know, expel · To what, where: fedayeen, conflict, Palestinian fighters
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jordan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jordanian army, resultant, conflict), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 September | case |
| 2 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 targeted | obl |
| 3 | 1970 | 1970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 September | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 September | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 army | det |
| 6 | Jordanian | Jordanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 army | compound |
| 7 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 targeted | nsubj |
| 8 | targeted | target | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fedayeen | det |
| 10 | fedayeen | fedayeen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 targeted | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 resultant | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 resultant | det |
| 13 | resultant | resultant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fedayeen | conj |
| 14 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 resultant | acl |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fighting | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 expulsion | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 expulsion | det |
| 18 | expulsion | expulsion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fighters | case |
| 20 | Palestinian | Palestinian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fighters | amod |
| 21 | fighters | fighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 expulsion | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 groups | case |
| 23 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 groups | amod |
| 24 | PLO | PLO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 groups | compound |
| 25 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fighters | nmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 Lebanon | case |
| 27 | Lebanon | Lebanon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 groups | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 conflict | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 conflict | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 conflict | det |
| 31 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 targeted | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 became | nsubj |
| 33 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 conflict | acl:relcl |
| 34 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 became | xcomp |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 September | case |
| 36 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 September | compound |
| 37 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 known | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 targeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | target | past | the Jordanian army | the fedayeen and the resultant | a conflict | september | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fedayeen=Theme | ||
| 2 | fight | gerund | the resultant not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lead | participle | the resultant not said here | to the expulsion of Palestinian fighters from various PLO groups into Lebanon | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to expulsion=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | past | a conflict | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | participle | a conflict not said here | september | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | expel | Palestinian fighters from various PLO groups into Lebanon | nom expulsion «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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