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title: Although visitors from neighbouring Arab nations make up the bulk of… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: Although visitors from neighbouring Arab nations make up the bulk of medical tourism patients here due to its proximity, Beirut is strongly trying to woo more Southern Europeans, Asians and North Americans to its land. Who acts: visitors, Beirut. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its dependenc
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# Beirut, sentence 314

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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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Although visitors from neighbouring Arab nations make up the bulk of medical tourism patients here due to its proximity, Beirut is strongly trying to woo more Southern Europeans, Asians and North Americans to its land.

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**Who acts:** visitors, Beirut · **What happens:** neighbour, make up, try, woo · **To what, where:** bulk, Southern Europeans

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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 (visitors, Beirut), 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:314
# text = Although visitors from neighbouring Arab nations make up the bulk of medical tourism patients here due to its proximity, Beirut is strongly trying to woo more Southern Europeans, Asians and North Americans to its land.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
5	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bulk	bulk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	tourism	tourism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	proximity	proximity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
21	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	woo	woo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Asians	Asian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make up** | present | visitors from neighbouring Arab nations | the bulk of medical tourism patients due bulk's proximity |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bulk=Pivot |
| 3 | **try** | present · progressive | Beirut |  |  |  |  | Asians to bulk's land and North Americans *parataxis*; strongly *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **woo** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Beirut *not said here* | Southern Europeans |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent european=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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