Beirut, sentence 359

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.

Sursock Museum was built by the illustrious Sursock family at the end of the 19th century as a private villa for Nicolas Sursock, and then donated to the Lebanese state upon his death.

Who acts: illustrious Sursock family, Sursock · What happens: build, donate, die · To what, where: Sursock, Lebanese state

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 (illustrious Sursock family, Sursock), 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	Sursock	Sursock	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 built	nsubj:pass
2	Museum	Museum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sursock	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 built	aux:pass
4	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 family	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 family	det
7	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 family	amod
8	Sursock	Sursock	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 family	compound
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 family	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 century	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 century	det
15	19th	19th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	16 century	amod
16	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	nmod
17	as	as	ADP	_	20 villa	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 villa	det
19	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 villa	amod
20	villa	villa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 Nicolas	case
22	Nicolas	Nicolas	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 villa	nmod
23	Sursock	Sursock	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Nicolas	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 donated	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 donated	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 donated	advmod
27	donated	donate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 built	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 state	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 state	det
30	Lebanese	Lebanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 state	amod
31	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 donated	obl
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 death	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 death	nmod:poss
34	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 state	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive	the illustrious Sursock family at the end of the 19th century	Sursock			as a private villa for Nicolas	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
2	donate	participle	the illustrious Sursock family at the end of the 19th century not said here		the Lebanese state upon Sursock's death	then		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to state=Recipient
3	die		Sursock					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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Beirut, sentence 359