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title: The Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut is th… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: The Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut is the third-oldest museum in the Middle East, exhibiting a wide range of artefacts from Lebanon and neighbouring countries. Who acts: Archaeological Museum, third oldest museum. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its dependency tre
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# Beirut, sentence 358

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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 Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut is the third-oldest museum in the Middle East, exhibiting a wide range of artefacts from Lebanon and neighbouring countries.

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**Who acts:** Archaeological Museum, third oldest museum · **What happens:** be, exhibit · **To what, where:** third oldest museum, Middle East, wide range

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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 (Archaeological Museum, third oldest museum), 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:358
# text = The Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut is the third-oldest museum in the Middle East, exhibiting a wide range of artefacts from Lebanon and neighbouring countries.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Archaeological	Archaeological	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Museum	Museum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	exhibiting	exhibit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	artefacts	artefact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut | the third oldest museum |  | the Middle East |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exhibit** | gerund | the third oldest museum *not said here* | a wide range of artefacts from Lebanon and neighbouring countries |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent range=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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