Lebanon, sentence 260
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.
Starting with the Israeli explosion of Lebanese pagers and walkie talkies in September 2024, the conflict escalated severely, with the 23 September 2024 Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon killing at least 558 people, and sparking a mass exodus from southern Lebanon.
Who acts: 2024 Israeli airstrikes · What happens: start, escalate, kill, spark, explode · To what, where: conflict, 558 people, mass exodus, southern Lebanon, Lebanese pagers
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 (2024 Israeli airstrikes), 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 | Starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 explosion | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 explosion | det |
| 4 | Israeli | Israeli | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 explosion | amod |
| 5 | explosion | explosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Starting | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pagers | case |
| 7 | Lebanese | Lebanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pagers | amod |
| 8 | pagers | pager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 explosion | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 talkies | cc |
| 10 | walkie | walkie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 talkies | compound |
| 11 | talkies | talkie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pagers | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 September | case |
| 13 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Starting | obl |
| 14 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 September | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 conflict | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 conflict | det |
| 17 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 September | appos |
| 18 | escalated | escalate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 conflict | acl |
| 19 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 18 escalated | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 September | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 September | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 September | det |
| 23 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 September | nummod |
| 24 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 escalated | obl |
| 25 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 airstrikes | nummod |
| 26 | Israeli | Israeli | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 airstrikes | amod |
| 27 | airstrikes | airstrike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 September | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 Lebanon | case |
| 29 | Lebanon | Lebanon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 airstrikes | nmod |
| 30 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 airstrikes | acl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 least | case |
| 32 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 558 | nmod |
| 33 | 558 | 558 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 people | nummod |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 killing | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sparking | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sparking | cc |
| 37 | sparking | spark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Starting | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 exodus | det |
| 39 | mass | mass | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 exodus | amod |
| 40 | exodus | exodus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sparking | obj |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 Lebanon | case |
| 42 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Lebanon | amod |
| 43 | Lebanon | Lebanon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 sparking | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Starting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | september | with the Israeli explosion of Lebanese pagers and walkie talkies | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with explosion=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | escalate | participle | the conflict not said here | september | severely property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | kill | gerund | 2024 Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon not said here | 558 people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spark | gerund | a mass exodus | southern Lebanon | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition exodus=Patient | ||||
| 5 | explode | Lebanese pagers and walkie talkies | nom explosion «event 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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