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title: On 10 August 2020, as a result of the protests, Prime Minister Hassa… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: On 10 August 2020, as a result of the protests, Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced his resignation. Who acts: Hassan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beirut, sentence 168

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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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On 10 August 2020, as a result of the protests, Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced his resignation.

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**Who acts:** Hassan · **What happens:** announce, result, resign · **To what, where:** resignation, protests

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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 (Hassan), 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:168
# text = On 10 August 2020, as a result of the protests, Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced his resignation.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	14	compound	_	_
14	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Diab	Diab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	resignation	resignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Hassan  Prime Minister | Hassan's resignation |  |  | august |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resignation=Theme |
| 2 | **result** |  |  | the protests |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **resign** |  | Hassan |  |  |  |  |  | nom resignation «feeling transitive»: poss=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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