Beirut, sentence 39
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.
Beirut V (Nahr Beirut, Beirut River) was discovered by Dillenseger and said to be in an orchard of mulberry trees on the left bank of the river, near the river mouth, and to be close to the railway station and bridge to Tripoli.
Who acts: Dillenseger · What happens: discover, say, be · To what, where: Beirut V, orchard · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dillenseger), 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 V | compound |
| 2 | V | v | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 Beirut | punct |
| 4 | Nahr | Nahr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Beirut | compound |
| 5 | Beirut | Beirut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 V | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 River | punct |
| 7 | Beirut | Beirut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 River | compound |
| 8 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Beirut | conj |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 Beirut | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 discovered | aux:pass |
| 11 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Dillenseger | case |
| 13 | Dillenseger | Dillenseger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 discovered | obl:agent |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 discovered | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 orchard | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 orchard | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 orchard | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 orchard | det |
| 20 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 trees | case |
| 22 | mulberry | mulberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trees | compound |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 orchard | nmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 bank | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bank | det |
| 26 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bank | amod |
| 27 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trees | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 river | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 river | det |
| 30 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bank | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 mouth | punct |
| 32 | near | near | ADP | _ | 35 mouth | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 mouth | det |
| 34 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mouth | compound |
| 35 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 orchard | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 close | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 close | cc |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 close | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 close | cop |
| 40 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 discovered | conj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 station | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 station | det |
| 43 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 station | compound |
| 44 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 close | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 bridge | cc |
| 46 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 station | conj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 Tripoli | case |
| 48 | Tripoli | Tripoli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 station | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past · passive | Dillenseger | Beirut V | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dillenseger not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | a orchard and the river mouth | of mulberry trees on the left bank of the river; the river mouth conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | Dillenseger not said here | to the railway station to Tripoli and bridge; close property | tree rules |
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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