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title: A multinational force of American, French and Italian contingents (j… — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics
description: A multinational force of American, French and Italian contingents (joined in 1983 by a British contingent) were deployed in Beirut after the Israeli siege of the city, to supervise the evacuation of the PLO. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lebanon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lebanon, sentence 160

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From Wikipedia, [«Lebanon»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon), 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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A multinational force of American, French and Italian contingents (joined in 1983 by a British contingent) were deployed in Beirut after the Israeli siege of the city, to supervise the evacuation of the PLO.

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**What happens:** join, deploy, supervise, evacuate · **To what, where:** American contingents, multinational force, Beirut, evacuation, PLO

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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: 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:Lebanon:160
# text = A multinational force of American, French and Italian contingents (joined in 1983 by a British contingent) were deployed in Beirut after the Israeli siege of the city, to supervise the evacuation of the PLO.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	multinational	multinational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	contingents	contingent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1983	1983	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	contingent	contingent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	deployed	deploy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Israeli	Israeli	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	supervise	supervise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	evacuation	evacuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	PLO	PLO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | participle |  | American contingents *not said here* |  |  |  | by a British contingent; in 1983 | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1983=Theme |
| 2 | **deploy** | past · passive |  | a multinational force of American contingents |  | Beirut | after the Israeli siege of the city |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **supervise** | to-infinitive |  | the evacuation of the PLO |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent evacuation=Eventuality |
| 4 | **evacuate** |  |  | the PLO |  |  |  |  | nom evacuation «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, «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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