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title: Snow is rare, except in the mountainous eastern suburbs, where snowf… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: Snow is rare, except in the mountainous eastern suburbs, where snowfall occurs due to the region's high altitudes. Who acts: Snow, snowfall. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beirut, sentence 183

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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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Snow is rare, except in the mountainous eastern suburbs, where snowfall occurs due to the region's high altitudes.

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**Who acts:** Snow, snowfall · **What happens:** be, occur

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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 (Snow, snowfall), 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:183
# text = Snow is rare, except in the mountainous eastern suburbs, where snowfall occurs due to the region's high altitudes.
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	except	except	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	mountainous	mountainous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	snowfall	snowfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	altitudes	altitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Snow |  |  |  |  | the mountainous eastern suburbs *parataxis*; rare *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **occur** | present | snowfall |  |  |  |  | due the region's high altitudes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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