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Beirut, sentence 63

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.

After the Seleucid Empire faced a state of civil war and decline, King Tigranes the Great of the Kingdom of Armenia conquered Beirut and placed it under effective Armenian control.

Who acts: Seleucid Empire, King Tigranes · What happens: face, conquer, place · To what, where: state, Beirut, effective Armenian control

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 (Seleucid Empire, King Tigranes), 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

markdetcompoundnsubjadvcldetobjcaseamodnmodccconjpunctcompoundnsubjdetflatcasedetnmodcasenmodobjccconjobjcaseamodcompoundoblpunctrootAfterSCONJtheDETSeleucidPROPNEmpirePROPNfacedVERBaDETstateNOUNofADPcivilADJwarNOUNandCCONJdeclineNOUN,PUNCTKingPROPNTigranesPROPNtheDETGreatPROPNofADPtheDETKingdomPROPNofADPArmeniaPROPNconqueredVERBBeirutPROPNandCCONJplacedVERBitPRONunderADPeffectiveADJArmenianPROPNcontrolNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterSCONJ_5 facedmark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Empiredet
3SeleucidSeleucidPROPNNumber=Sing4 Empirecompound
4EmpireEmpirePROPNNumber=Sing5 facednsubj
5facedfaceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 conqueredadvcl
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 statedet
7statestateNOUNNumber=Sing5 facedobj
8ofofADP_10 warcase
9civilcivilADJDegree=Pos10 waramod
10warwarNOUNNumber=Sing7 statenmod
11andandCCONJ_12 declinecc
12declinedeclineNOUNNumber=Sing10 warconj
13,,PUNCT_5 facedpunct
14KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing15 Tigranescompound
15TigranesTigranesPROPNNumber=Sing23 conquerednsubj
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Greatdet
17GreatGreatPROPNNumber=Sing15 Tigranesflat
18ofofADP_20 Kingdomcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 Kingdomdet
20KingdomKingdomPROPNNumber=Sing17 Greatnmod
21ofofADP_22 Armeniacase
22ArmeniaArmeniaPROPNNumber=Sing20 Kingdomnmod
23conqueredconquerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
24BeirutBeirutPROPNNumber=Sing23 conqueredobj
25andandCCONJ_26 placedcc
26placedplaceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 conqueredconj
27ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 placedobj
28underunderADP_31 controlcase
29effectiveeffectiveADJDegree=Pos31 controlamod
30ArmenianArmenianPROPNNumber=Sing31 controlcompound
31controlcontrolNOUNNumber=Sing26 placedobl
32..PUNCT_23 conqueredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1facepastthe Seleucid Empirea state of civil war and declinevn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent state=Destination
2conquerpastKing TigranesBeirutvn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beirut=Patient
3placepastKing Tigranes not said herestateeffective Armenian controlvn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under control=Destination

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Beirut», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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