Beirut, sentence 44
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 VII, located at the Rivoli Cinema and Byblos Cinema sites near the Bourj in the Rue el Arz area, consists of two sites discovered by Lorraine Copeland, Peter Wescombe, and Marina Hayek in 1964 and examined by Diana Kirkbride and Roger Saidah.
Who acts: Beirut VII · What happens: locate, consist, discover, examine · To what, where: Beirut VII, Rivoli Cinema, Marina Hayek, two sites
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 (Beirut VII), 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 VII | compound |
| 2 | VII | vii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 consists | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 located | punct |
| 4 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 VII | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Cinema | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Cinema | det |
| 7 | Rivoli | Rivoli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Cinema | compound |
| 8 | Cinema | Cinema | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 located | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sites | cc |
| 10 | Byblos | Byblos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sites | compound |
| 11 | Cinema | Cinema | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sites | compound |
| 12 | sites | site | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Cinema | conj |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 Bourj | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bourj | det |
| 15 | Bourj | Bourj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sites | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 area | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 area | det |
| 18 | Rue | Rue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 el | compound |
| 19 | el | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 area | compound |
| 20 | Arz | Arz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 el | flat |
| 21 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Bourj | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 VII | punct |
| 23 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sites | case |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 sites | nummod |
| 26 | sites | site | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 consists | obl |
| 27 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 sites | acl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 Lorraine | case |
| 29 | Lorraine | Lorraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 discovered | obl:agent |
| 30 | Copeland | Copeland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Lorraine | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Peter | punct |
| 32 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Lorraine | conj |
| 33 | Wescombe | Wescombe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Peter | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Hayek | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Hayek | cc |
| 36 | Marina | Marina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Hayek | compound |
| 37 | Hayek | Hayek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 consists | obl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 1964 | case |
| 39 | 1964 | 1964 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 Hayek | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 examined | cc |
| 41 | examined | examine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 1964 | conj |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 Diana | case |
| 43 | Diana | Diana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 examined | obl |
| 44 | Kirkbride | Kirkbride | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Diana | flat |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 Roger | cc |
| 46 | Roger | Roger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Diana | conj |
| 47 | Saidah | Saidah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Roger | flat |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 consists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | participle | Beirut VII not said here | the Rivoli Cinema and Byblos Cinema sites near the Bourj in the el area | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | consist | present | Beirut VII | Marina Hayek in 1964 | of two sites | tree rules | |||
| 3 | discover | participle | two sites not said here | Lorraine and Peter obl:agent | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | examine | participle | Beirut VII not said here | by Diana and Roger | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
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