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title: Beirut Souks are the Central District's old medieval market, recentl… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: Beirut Souks are the Central District's old medieval market, recently renovated along with the original Hellenistic street grid that characterised the old souks and the area's historical landmarks along long vaulted shopping alleys and arcades. Who acts: Beirut Souks, original Hellenistic street gri
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# Beirut, sentence 243

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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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Beirut Souks are the Central District's old medieval market, recently renovated along with the original Hellenistic street grid that characterised the old souks and the area's historical landmarks along long vaulted shopping alleys and arcades.

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**Who acts:** Beirut Souks, original Hellenistic street grid · **What happens:** be, renovate, characteris, vault · **To what, where:** old medieval market, old souks

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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 Souks, original Hellenistic street grid), 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:243
# text = Beirut Souks are the Central District's old medieval market, recently renovated along with the original Hellenistic street grid that characterised the old souks and the area's historical landmarks along long vaulted shopping alleys and arcades.
1	Beirut	beirut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Souks	souk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	District	District	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	medieval	medieval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	renovated	renovate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	Hellenistic	Hellenistic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	characterised	characteris	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	souks	souk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	landmarks	landmark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
32	along	along	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
33	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
34	vaulted	vault	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
35	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	alleys	alley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	arcades	arcade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Beirut Souks | the Central District's old medieval market |  |  |  | the Central District *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **renovate** | participle |  | the Central District's old medieval market *not said here* |  |  |  | along the original Hellenistic street grid; vaulted shopping alleys and arcades *conj*; along, recently *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **characteris** | past | the original Hellenistic street grid | the old souks and the area's historical landmarks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **vault** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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