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title: The Beirut Central District (BCD) or Centre Ville is the name given… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: The Beirut Central District (BCD) or Centre Ville is the name given to Beirut's historical and geographical core by "Solidere", the "vibrant financial, commercial, and administrative hub of the country". Who acts: Beirut Central District. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its dependency tree a
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# Beirut, sentence 230

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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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The Beirut Central District (BCD) or Centre Ville is the name given to Beirut's historical and geographical core by "Solidere", the "vibrant financial, commercial, and administrative hub of the country".

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**Who acts:** Beirut Central District · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** name, historical core

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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 Central District), 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:230
# text = The Beirut Central District (BCD) or Centre Ville is the name given to Beirut's historical and geographical core by "Solidere", the "vibrant financial, commercial, and administrative hub of the country".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
4	District	District	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	BCD	BCD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Centre	Centre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	Ville	Ville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	geographical	geographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Solidere	Solidere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	vibrant	vibrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
30	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Beirut Central District or Centre | the name and administrative hub of the country |  |  |  | administrative hub of the country *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | the name and administrative hub of the country *not said here* | Beirut's historical core |  |  | by Solidere | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to core=Recipient |

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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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