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title: The Corniche reaches its maximum height above sea level at Raouché,… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: The Corniche reaches its maximum height above sea level at Raouché, a high-rise residential neighbourhood rising over a giant white limestone cliff and facing the recognisable off-shore Raouché Rocks. Who acts: Corniche, rise residential neighbourhood. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its dep
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# Beirut, sentence 288

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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 Corniche reaches its maximum height above sea level at Raouché, a high-rise residential neighbourhood rising over a giant white limestone cliff and facing the recognisable off-shore Raouché Rocks.

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**Who acts:** Corniche, rise residential neighbourhood · **What happens:** reach, rise, face · **To what, where:** maximum height, sea level, giant white limestone cliff, recognisable

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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 (Corniche, rise residential neighbourhood), 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:288
# text = The Corniche reaches its maximum height above sea level at Raouché, a high-rise residential neighbourhood rising over a giant white limestone cliff and facing the recognisable off-shore Raouché Rocks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Corniche	corniche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	maximum	maximum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	above	above	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Raouché	Raouché	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	residential	residential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
19	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	limestone	limestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	recognisable	recognisable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	Raouché	Raouché	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | present | the Corniche | Corniche's maximum height |  | sea level |  | at Raouché | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent height=Theme at raouché=Asset |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | a rise residential neighbourhood *not said here* |  |  | a giant white limestone cliff |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over cliff=Location |
| 3 | **face** | gerund | a rise residential neighbourhood *not said here* | the recognisable |  |  |  | off shore Raouché Rocks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme recognisable=Destination |

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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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