Lebanon, sentence 228
From Wikipedia, «Lebanon», 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.
On 4 August 2020, an explosion at the port of Beirut, Lebanon's main port, destroyed the surrounding areas, killing over 200 people, and injuring thousands more.
Who acts: explosion · What happens: destroy, surround, kill, injure · To what, where: surrounding areas, 200 people, more
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lebanon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (explosion), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 August | case |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 August | nummod |
| 3 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 destroyed | obl |
| 4 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 August | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 explosion | punct |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 explosion | det |
| 7 | explosion | explosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 destroyed | nsubj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 port | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 port | det |
| 10 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 explosion | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Beirut | case |
| 12 | Beirut | Beirut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 port | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 port | punct |
| 14 | Lebanon | Lebanon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 port | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Lebanon | case |
| 16 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 port | amod |
| 17 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Beirut | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 explosion | punct |
| 19 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 areas | det |
| 21 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 areas | amod |
| 22 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 destroyed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 killing | punct |
| 24 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 destroyed | advcl |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 26 200 | advmod |
| 26 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 people | nummod |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 killing | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 injuring | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 injuring | cc |
| 30 | injuring | injure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 destroyed | advcl |
| 31 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 more | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 injuring | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past | a explosion at the port of Beirut | the surrounding areas | august | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient | |||
| 2 | surround | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | kill | gerund | a explosion at the port of Beirut not said here | 200 people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 4 | injure | gerund | a explosion at the port of Beirut not said here | more thousands | tree rules |
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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