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title: In his 2003 book entitled Beirut and its Seven Families, Yussef Bin… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: In his 2003 book entitled Beirut and its Seven Families, Yussef Bin Ahmad Bin Ali Al Husseini says: Who acts: Beirut. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beirut, sentence 118

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From Wikipedia, [«Beirut»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In his 2003 book entitled Beirut and its Seven Families, Yussef Bin Ahmad Bin Ali Al Husseini says:

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**Who acts:** Beirut · **What happens:** entitle, say · **To what, where:** 2003 book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Beirut), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Beirut:118
# text = In his 2003 book entitled Beirut and its Seven Families, Yussef Bin Ahmad Bin Ali Al Husseini says:
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Yussef	Yussef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	Ahmad	Ahmad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	Bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
17	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
18	Husseini	Husseini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entitle** | past |  |  |  | President's 2003 book |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Beirut and book's Seven Families |  |  |  |  | Yussef Ahmad *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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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