Beirut, sentence 43
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.
It was notable for the discovery of a finely styled Canaanean blade javelin suggested to date to the early or middle Neolithic periods of Byblos and which is held in the school library.
Who acts: area · What happens: be, style, suggest, hold, discover · To what, where: styled Canaanean blade javelin, date, Byblos, school library
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 (area), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 notable | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 notable | cop |
| 3 | notable | notable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 discovery | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 discovery | det |
| 6 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 notable | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 javelin | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 javelin | det |
| 9 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 10 styled | advmod |
| 10 | styled | style | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 javelin | amod |
| 11 | Canaanean | canaanean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 javelin | amod |
| 12 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 javelin | compound |
| 13 | javelin | javelin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 discovery | nmod |
| 14 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 javelin | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 date | case |
| 16 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 suggested | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 periods | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 periods | det |
| 19 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 periods | amod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 middle | cc |
| 21 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 early | conj |
| 22 | Neolithic | neolithic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 periods | amod |
| 23 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 suggested | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Byblos | case |
| 25 | Byblos | Byblos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 periods | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 held | cc |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 held | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 held | aux:pass |
| 29 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 Byblos | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 library | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 library | det |
| 32 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 library | compound |
| 33 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 held | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 notable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | area | for the discovery of a styled Canaanean blade javelin; notable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | style | participle | finely property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | suggest speech: suggest | participle | a styled Canaanean blade javelin not said here | date | to the early Neolithic periods of Byblos | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to date=Recipient | |||
| 4 | hold | present · passive | Byblos | the school library | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in library=Location | ||||
| 5 | discover | a styled Canaanean blade javelin | nom discovery «act transitive»: of=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.
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