Beirut, sentence 288
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 Corniche reaches its maximum height above sea level at Raouché, a high-rise residential neighbourhood rising over a giant white limestone cliff and facing the recognisable off-shore Raouché Rocks.
Who acts: Corniche, rise residential neighbourhood · What happens: reach, rise, face · To what, where: maximum height, sea level, giant white limestone cliff, recognisable
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 (Corniche, rise residential neighbourhood), 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 | 2 Corniche | det |
| 2 | Corniche | corniche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | nsubj |
| 3 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 height | nmod:poss |
| 5 | maximum | maximum | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 height | amod |
| 6 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | obj |
| 7 | above | above | ADP | _ | 9 level | case |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 level | compound |
| 9 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Raouché | case |
| 11 | Raouché | Raouché | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 neighbourhood | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 neighbourhood | det |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rise | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 high | punct |
| 16 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 neighbourhood | compound |
| 17 | residential | residential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 neighbourhood | amod |
| 18 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Raouché | appos |
| 19 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 neighbourhood | acl |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 cliff | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cliff | det |
| 22 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cliff | amod |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cliff | amod |
| 24 | limestone | limestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cliff | compound |
| 25 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rising | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 facing | cc |
| 27 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 rising | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 recognisable | det |
| 29 | recognisable | recognisable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 facing | obj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 Rocks | case |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 off | punct |
| 32 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Rocks | compound |
| 33 | Raouché | Raouché | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Rocks | compound |
| 34 | Rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 facing | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | the Corniche | Corniche's maximum height | sea level | at Raouché | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent height=Theme at raouché=Asset | ||
| 2 | rise | gerund | a rise residential neighbourhood not said here | a giant white limestone cliff | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over cliff=Location | ||||
| 3 | face | gerund | a rise residential neighbourhood not said here | the recognisable | off shore Raouché Rocks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme recognisable=Destination |
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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