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title: The government of Lebanon has been unable or unwilling to prevent He… — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics
description: The government of Lebanon has been unable or unwilling to prevent Hezbollah attacks on Israel, and violent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Who acts: government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lebanon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lebanon, sentence 412

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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 government of Lebanon has been unable or unwilling to prevent Hezbollah attacks on Israel, and violent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** be, unwill, prevent · **To what, where:** Hezbollah attacks, Israel

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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 (government), 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:412
# text = The government of Lebanon has been unable or unwilling to prevent Hezbollah attacks on Israel, and violent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	unwilling	unwill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	Hezbollah	Hezbollah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Hezbollah	Hezbollah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | the government of Lebanon |  |  |  |  | violent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon *conj*; unable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **unwill** | gerund | the government of Lebanon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | the government of Lebanon *not said here* | Hezbollah attacks |  | Israel |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer attack=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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