Lebanon, sentence 88
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 Baalbek and Beqaa Valley and Jabal Amel was ruled intermittently by various Shia feudal families, especially the Al Ali Alsagheer in Jabal Amel that remained in power until 1865 when Ottomans took direct ruling of the region.
Who acts: feudal families, Ottomans · What happens: rule, remain, take · To what, where: Baalbek, power, direct ruling, region
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 (feudal families, Ottomans), 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 Baalbek | det |
| 2 | Baalbek | Baalbek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Valley | cc |
| 4 | Beqaa | Beqaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Valley | compound |
| 5 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Baalbek | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Jabal | cc |
| 7 | Jabal | Jabal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Baalbek | conj |
| 8 | Amel | Amel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Jabal | flat |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ruled | aux:pass |
| 10 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | intermittently | intermittently | ADV | _ | 10 ruled | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Shia | case |
| 13 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Shia | amod |
| 14 | Shia | Shia | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 families | obl |
| 15 | feudal | feudal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 families | amod |
| 16 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ruled | obl:agent |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Alsagheer | punct |
| 18 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 22 Alsagheer | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Alsagheer | det |
| 20 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ali | compound |
| 21 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Alsagheer | compound |
| 22 | Alsagheer | Alsagheer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 families | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Jabal | case |
| 24 | Jabal | Jabal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Alsagheer | nmod |
| 25 | Amel | Amel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Jabal | flat |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 remained | nsubj |
| 27 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 families | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 power | case |
| 29 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 remained | obl |
| 30 | until | until | ADP | _ | 31 1865 | case |
| 31 | 1865 | 1865 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 remained | obl |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 took | advmod |
| 33 | Ottomans | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 took | nsubj |
| 34 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 remained | advcl |
| 35 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ruling | amod |
| 36 | ruling | ruling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 took | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 region | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 region | det |
| 39 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ruling | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past · passive | feudal families by various Shia the Ali Alsagheer in Jabal | the Baalbek and Beqaa Valley and Jabal | intermittently property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | |||
| 2 | remain | past | feudal families by various Shia the Ali Alsagheer in Jabal | power | until 1865 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in power=Location | |||
| 3 | take | past | Ottomans | direct ruling of the region | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruling=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rule | the region | nom ruling «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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