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title: However, Gemmayzeh received the most damage by the Beirut explosion… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: However, Gemmayzeh received the most damage by the Beirut explosion in 2020. Who acts: Gemmayzeh, Beirut explosion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beirut, sentence 304

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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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However, Gemmayzeh received the most damage by the Beirut explosion in 2020.

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**Who acts:** Gemmayzeh, Beirut explosion · **What happens:** receive, damage · **To what, where:** most damage

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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 (Gemmayzeh, Beirut explosion), 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:304
# text = However, Gemmayzeh received the most damage by the Beirut explosion in 2020.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Gemmayzeh	Gemmayzeh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | Gemmayzeh | the most damage |  |  |  | by the Beirut explosion in 2020; however *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent damage=Theme by explosion=Location |
| 2 | **damage** |  | the Beirut explosion in 2020 |  |  |  |  |  | nom damage «event transitive»: by=agent |

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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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