Beirut, sentence 230
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.
The Beirut Central District (BCD) or Centre Ville is the name given to Beirut's historical and geographical core by "Solidere", the "vibrant financial, commercial, and administrative hub of the country".
Who acts: Beirut Central District · What happens: be, give · To what, where: name, historical core
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 Central District), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 District | det |
| 2 | Beirut | Beirut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 District | compound |
| 3 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 District | flat |
| 4 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 name | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 BCD | punct |
| 6 | BCD | BCD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 District | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 BCD | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 Centre | cc |
| 9 | Centre | Centre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 District | conj |
| 10 | Ville | Ville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Centre | flat |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 name | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 name | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 core | case |
| 16 | Beirut | Beirut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 core | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Beirut | case |
| 18 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 core | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 geographical | cc |
| 20 | geographical | geographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 historical | conj |
| 21 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Solidere | case |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Solidere | punct |
| 24 | Solidere | Solidere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obl |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Solidere | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 vibrant | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 vibrant | det |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 vibrant | punct |
| 29 | vibrant | vibrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Solidere | appos |
| 30 | financial | financial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 vibrant | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 commercial | punct |
| 32 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 financial | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hub | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hub | cc |
| 35 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hub | amod |
| 36 | hub | hub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 name | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 country | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 country | det |
| 39 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hub | nmod |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 hub | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Beirut Central District or Centre | the name and administrative hub of the country | administrative hub of the country conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | participle | the name and administrative hub of the country not said here | Beirut's historical core | by Solidere | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to core=Recipient |
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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