Lebanon, sentence 191
From Wikipedia, «Lebanon», 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.
It marked the beginning of a series of assassinations that resulted in the death of many prominent Lebanese figures and triggered the demonstrations which demanded the withdrawal of the Syrian troops from Lebanon and the establishment of an international commission to investigate the assassination.
Who acts: leader, assassinations, demonstrations, many prominent Lebanese figures · What happens: mark, result, trigger, demand, investigate, begin · To what, where: beginning, death, demonstrations, withdrawal, assassination, series
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lebanon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leader, assassinations, demonstrations, many prominent Lebanese figures), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 marked | nsubj |
| 2 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beginning | det |
| 4 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 series | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 series | det |
| 7 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beginning | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 assassinations | case |
| 9 | assassinations | assassination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 series | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 resulted | nsubj |
| 11 | resulted | result | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 assassinations | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 death | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 death | det |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resulted | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 figures | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 figures | amod |
| 17 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 figures | amod |
| 18 | Lebanese | Lebanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 figures | amod |
| 19 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 death | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 triggered | cc |
| 21 | triggered | trigger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 marked | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 demonstrations | det |
| 23 | demonstrations | demonstration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 triggered | obj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 demanded | nsubj |
| 25 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 demonstrations | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 withdrawal | det |
| 27 | withdrawal | withdrawal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 demanded | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 troops | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 troops | det |
| 30 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 troops | amod |
| 31 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 27 withdrawal | nmod |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 Lebanon | case |
| 33 | Lebanon | Lebanon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 troops | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 establishment | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 establishment | det |
| 36 | establishment | establishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Lebanon | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 commission | case |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 commission | det |
| 39 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 commission | amod |
| 40 | commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 establishment | nmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 investigate | mark |
| 42 | investigate | investigate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 demanded | advcl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 assassination | det |
| 44 | assassination | assassination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 investigate | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | leader | the beginning of a series of assassinations | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent beginning=Destination | ||||
| 2 | result | past | assassinations | the death of many prominent Lebanese figures | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in death=Location | ||||
| 3 | trigger | past | leader not said here | the demonstrations | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition demonstration=Patient | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | past | the demonstrations | the withdrawal of the Syrian troops from Lebanon and the establishment of a international commission | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme withdrawal=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | investigate | to-infinitive | the demonstrations not said here | the assassination | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assassination=Theme | ||||
| 6 | begin | a series of assassinations | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | die | many prominent Lebanese figures | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | withdraw | the Syrian troops from Lebanon and the establishment of a international commission | nom withdrawal «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | establish | a international commission | nom establishment «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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Lebanon», 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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