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title: The district contains numerous old mosques and crusader churches, as… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: The district contains numerous old mosques and crusader churches, as well as uncovered remnants and ruins of the Roman era. Who acts: district. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beirut, sentence 284

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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 district contains numerous old mosques and crusader churches, as well as uncovered remnants and ruins of the Roman era.

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**Who acts:** district · **What happens:** contain, ruin · **To what, where:** numerous old mosques, Roman era

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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 (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:284
# text = The district contains numerous old mosques and crusader churches, as well as uncovered remnants and ruins of the Roman era.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mosques	mosque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	crusader	crusader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
14	uncovered	uncovered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	remnants	remnant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	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 | **contain** | present | the district | numerous old mosques and crusader churches as uncovered remnants and ruins of the Roman era |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mosque=Theme |
| 2 | **ruin** |  |  | the Roman era |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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