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title: The Phoenician city-states were later incorporated into the empire o… — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics
description: The Phoenician city-states were later incorporated into the empire of Alexander the Great following the siege of Tyre in 332 BCE. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lebanon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lebanon, sentence 40

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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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The Phoenician city-states were later incorporated into the empire of Alexander the Great following the siege of Tyre in 332 BCE.

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**What happens:** incorporate, follow · **To what, where:** Phoenician city states

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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:40
# text = The Phoenician city-states were later incorporated into the empire of Alexander the Great following the siege of Tyre in 332 BCE.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Phoenician	phoenician	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Tyre	Tyre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	332	332	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
23	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incorporate** | past · passive |  | the Phoenician city states |  |  |  | into the empire of Alexander; late *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient into empire=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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