Beirut, sentence 4
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 has been inhabited for more than 5,000 years, making it one of the oldest cities in the world.
What happens: inhabit, make · To what, where: Beirut
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: 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 | 4 inhabited | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 inhabited | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 4 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 8 5,000 | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 more | fixed |
| 8 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 inhabited | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 making | punct |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 inhabited | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 making | obj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 making | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cities | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cities | det |
| 16 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 cities | amod |
| 17 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cities | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inhabited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inhabit | present · perfect · passive | Beirut | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | Beirut | one of the oldest cities in the world xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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