Beirut, sentence 243
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Beirut Souks are the Central District's old medieval market, recently renovated along with the original Hellenistic street grid that characterised the old souks and the area's historical landmarks along long vaulted shopping alleys and arcades.
Who acts: Beirut Souks, original Hellenistic street grid · What happens: be, renovate, characteris, vault · To what, where: old medieval market, old souks
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 Souks, original Hellenistic street grid), 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 | Beirut | beirut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Souks | compound |
| 2 | Souks | souk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 market | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 market | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 District | det |
| 5 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 District | flat |
| 6 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 market | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 District | case |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 market | amod |
| 9 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 market | amod |
| 10 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 renovated | punct |
| 12 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 13 renovated | advmod |
| 13 | renovated | renovate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 market | acl |
| 14 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 grid | case |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 grid | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grid | det |
| 17 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grid | amod |
| 18 | Hellenistic | Hellenistic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 grid | compound |
| 19 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grid | compound |
| 20 | grid | grid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 renovated | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 characterised | nsubj |
| 22 | characterised | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 grid | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 souks | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 souks | amod |
| 25 | souks | souk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 characterised | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 landmarks | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 area | det |
| 28 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 landmarks | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 area | case |
| 30 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 landmarks | amod |
| 31 | landmarks | landmark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 souks | conj |
| 32 | along | along | ADV | _ | 13 renovated | advmod |
| 33 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 vaulted | advmod |
| 34 | vaulted | vault | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 alleys | amod |
| 35 | shopping | shopping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 alleys | compound |
| 36 | alleys | alley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 renovated | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 arcades | cc |
| 38 | arcades | arcade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 alleys | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 market | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Beirut Souks | the Central District's old medieval market | the Central District nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | renovate | participle | the Central District's old medieval market not said here | along the original Hellenistic street grid; vaulted shopping alleys and arcades conj; along, recently property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | characteris | past | the original Hellenistic street grid | the old souks and the area's historical landmarks | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | vault | participle | long property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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