Lebanon, sentence 229

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.

The cause of the explosion was later determined to be 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been unsafely stored, and accidentally set on fire that Tuesday afternoon.

Who acts: cause, that · What happens: be, store, set, afternoon, cause · To what, where: 2,750 tonnes, ammonium nitrate, fire, explosion

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 (cause, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cause	det
2	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 determined	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 explosion	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 explosion	det
5	explosion	explosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cause	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 determined	cop
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 determined	advmod
8	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	12 tonnes	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 tonnes	cop
11	2,750	2,750	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 tonnes	nummod
12	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 determined	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 nitrate	case
14	ammonium	ammonium	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nitrate	compound
15	nitrate	nitrate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tonnes	nmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 stored	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stored	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 stored	aux:pass
19	unsafely	unsafely	ADV	_	20 stored	advmod
20	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 nitrate	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 set	cc
23	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	_	24 set	advmod
24	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 determined	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 fire	case
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 afternoon	nsubj
28	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 afternoon	compound
29	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fire	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cause of the explosion			determined, late property	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	the cause of the explosion not said here	2,750 tonnes		of ammonium nitrate	tree rules
3	store	past · perfect · passive		ammonium nitrate		unsafely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	set	participle	the cause of the explosion not said here		fire and Tuesday afternoon	accidentally property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=Destination
5	afternoon		that				tree rules
6	cause			the explosion			nom cause «event 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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Lebanon», 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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Lebanon, sentence 229