--- title: Starting with the Israeli explosion of Lebanese pagers and walkie ta… — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Lebanon:260 # text = 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. 1 Starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Israeli Israeli ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 explosion explosion NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Lebanese Lebanese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 pagers pager NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 walkie walkie NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 talkies talkie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 14 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 conflict conflict NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 escalated escalate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 severely severely ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 23 23 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 Israeli Israeli ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 airstrikes airstrike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Lebanon Lebanon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 killing kill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 nmod _ _ 33 558 558 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 sparking spark VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 mass mass ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 exodus exodus NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 Lebanon Lebanon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 259](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lebanon/259/) - next →: [sentence 261](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lebanon/261/) - ↑ back to [Lebanon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lebanon/)