Beirut, sentence 222
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.
Since the end of the civil war, East and West Beirut have begun to see an increase in Muslims and Christians moving into each half.
Who acts: Muslims · What happens: begin, see, move · To what, where: East, increase, Muslims, half
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 (Muslims), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 begun | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 war | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 war | det |
| 6 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 war | amod |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 9 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 begun | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Beirut | cc |
| 11 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Beirut | compound |
| 12 | Beirut | Beirut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 East | conj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 begun | aux |
| 14 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 begun | xcomp |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 increase | det |
| 18 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Muslims | case |
| 20 | Muslims | Muslim | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 increase | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Christians | cc |
| 22 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 Muslims | conj |
| 23 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 Muslims | acl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 half | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 half | det |
| 26 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 23 moving | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 begun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present · perfect · passive | East and West Beirut | since the end of the civil war | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | a increase | Muslims and Christians | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer increase=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | move | gerund | Muslims and Christians not said here | each half | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into half=Trajectory |
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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