Beirut, sentence 118
From Wikipedia, «Beirut», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In his 2003 book entitled Beirut and its Seven Families, Yussef Bin Ahmad Bin Ali Al Husseini says:
Who acts: Beirut · What happens: entitle, say · To what, where: 2003 book · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Beirut». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beirut), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 book | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 book | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 2003 | 2003 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 book | compound |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entitled | obl |
| 5 | entitled | entitle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Beirut | Beirut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 says | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Families | cc |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Families | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Families | nummod |
| 10 | Families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Beirut | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ahmad | punct |
| 12 | Yussef | Yussef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ahmad | compound |
| 13 | Bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Yussef | flat |
| 14 | Ahmad | Ahmad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 says | nsubj |
| 15 | Bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ahmad | flat |
| 16 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ahmad | flat |
| 17 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ahmad | flat |
| 18 | Husseini | Husseini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Al | flat |
| 19 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 entitled | ccomp |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 entitled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entitle | past | President's 2003 book | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Beirut and book's Seven Families | Yussef Ahmad nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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, «Beirut», 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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