Beirut, sentence 314
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.
Although visitors from neighbouring Arab nations make up the bulk of medical tourism patients here due to its proximity, Beirut is strongly trying to woo more Southern Europeans, Asians and North Americans to its land.
Who acts: visitors, Beirut · What happens: neighbour, make up, try, woo · To what, where: bulk, Southern Europeans
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 (visitors, 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 2 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 nations | case |
| 4 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 nations | amod |
| 5 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nations | amod |
| 6 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 visitors | nmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 trying | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 make | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bulk | det |
| 10 | bulk | bulk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 patients | case |
| 12 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 patients | amod |
| 13 | tourism | tourism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 patients | compound |
| 14 | patients | patient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bulk | nmod |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 patients | advmod |
| 16 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 proximity | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 due | fixed |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 proximity | nmod:poss |
| 19 | proximity | proximity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 patients | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 21 | Beirut | Beirut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 trying | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 trying | aux |
| 23 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 24 trying | advmod |
| 24 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 woo | mark |
| 26 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 trying | xcomp |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 Southern | advmod |
| 28 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Europeans | amod |
| 29 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 woo | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Asians | punct |
| 31 | Asians | Asian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 trying | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Americans | cc |
| 33 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Americans | compound |
| 34 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 Asians | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 land | case |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 land | nmod:poss |
| 37 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Asians | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | make up | present | visitors from neighbouring Arab nations | the bulk of medical tourism patients due bulk's proximity | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bulk=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | try | present · progressive | Beirut | Asians to bulk's land and North Americans parataxis; strongly property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | woo not said to happen | to-infinitive | Beirut not said here | Southern Europeans | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent european=Patient |
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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