Beirut, sentence 53
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Controversy arose on 26 June 2012 when authorisation was given by Lebanese Minister of Culture Gaby Layoun for a private company called Venus Towers Real Estate Development Company to destroy the ruins (archaeological site BEY194) in the $500 million construction project of three skyscrapers and a garden behind Hotel Monroe in downtown Beirut.
Who acts: Controversy, Lebanese Minister, private company · What happens: arise, give, call, destroy, project · To what, where: 26, authorisation, Venus Towers, ruins, three skyscrapers · 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 (Controversy, Lebanese Minister, private company), 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 | Controversy | Controversy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 arose | nsubj |
| 2 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 26 | case |
| 4 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 arose | obl |
| 5 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 26 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 26 | flat |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 given | mark |
| 8 | authorisation | authorisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 arose | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Minister | case |
| 12 | Lebanese | Lebanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Minister | amod |
| 13 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Gaby | case |
| 15 | Culture | Culture | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Gaby | compound |
| 16 | Gaby | Gaby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Minister | nmod |
| 17 | Layoun | Layoun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Gaby | flat |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 company | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 company | det |
| 20 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 company | amod |
| 21 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obl |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 company | acl |
| 23 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Towers | compound |
| 24 | Towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 called | xcomp |
| 25 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Company | amod |
| 26 | Estate | Estate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Development | compound |
| 27 | Development | Development | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Company | compound |
| 28 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Towers | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 destroy | mark |
| 30 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 called | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ruins | det |
| 32 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 destroy | obj |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 site | punct |
| 34 | archaeological | archaeological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 site | amod |
| 35 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ruins | appos |
| 36 | BEY194 | BEY194 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 site | appos |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 site | punct |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 $ | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 $ | det |
| 40 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 44 project | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 million | compound |
| 42 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 $ | nummod |
| 43 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 project | compound |
| 44 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 destroy | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 skyscrapers | case |
| 46 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 skyscrapers | nummod |
| 47 | skyscrapers | skyscraper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 project | nmod |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 garden | cc |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 garden | det |
| 50 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 project | conj |
| 51 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 53 Monroe | case |
| 52 | Hotel | Hotel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Monroe | compound |
| 53 | Monroe | monroe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 garden | nmod |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 Beirut | case |
| 55 | downtown | downtown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 Beirut | amod |
| 56 | Beirut | beirut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 Monroe | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | Controversy | 26 June | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on 26=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | Lebanese Minister of Culture Gaby | authorisation | for a private company | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for company=Asset | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a private company not said here | Venus Towers Real Development Company | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | destroy | to-infinitive | a private company not said here | the ruins | construction project of three skyscrapers and a garden behind Hotel Monroe in downtown Beirut obl | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruin=Patient | |||
| 5 | project | three skyscrapers | nom project «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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