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title: It marked the beginning of a series of assassinations that resulted… — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 
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# Lebanon, sentence 191

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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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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.

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**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

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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: who acts (leader, assassinations, demonstrations, many prominent Lebanese figures), 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:191
# text = 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.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	assassinations	assassination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	resulted	result	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Lebanese	Lebanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	triggered	trigger	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	demonstrations	demonstration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	withdrawal	withdrawal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	27	nmod	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	commission	commission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	investigate	investigate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	assassination	assassination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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