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title: In September 1970, the Jordanian army targeted the fedayeen and the… — Jordan · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jord
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# Jordan, sentence 173

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From Wikipedia, [«Jordan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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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.

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**Who acts:** Jordanian army, resultant, conflict · **What happens:** target, fight, lead, become, know, expel · **To what, where:** fedayeen, conflict, Palestinian fighters

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Jordan:173
# text = 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.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	1970	1970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Jordanian	Jordanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	targeted	target	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fedayeen	fedayeen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	resultant	resultant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	expulsion	expulsion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Palestinian	Palestinian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fighters	fighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	PLO	PLO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Jordan», 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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