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title: Sursock Museum was built by the illustrious Sursock family at the en… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: Sursock Museum was built by the illustrious Sursock family at the end of the 19th century as a private villa for Nicolas Sursock, and then donated to the Lebanese state upon his death. Who acts: illustrious Sursock family, Sursock. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its dependency tree and prag
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# Beirut, sentence 359

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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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Sursock Museum was built by the illustrious Sursock family at the end of the 19th century as a private villa for Nicolas Sursock, and then donated to the Lebanese state upon his death.

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**Who acts:** illustrious Sursock family, Sursock · **What happens:** build, donate, die · **To what, where:** Sursock, Lebanese state

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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 (illustrious Sursock family, Sursock), 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:359
# text = Sursock Museum was built by the illustrious Sursock family at the end of the 19th century as a private villa for Nicolas Sursock, and then donated to the Lebanese state upon his death.
1	Sursock	Sursock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Museum	Museum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Sursock	Sursock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	villa	villa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Nicolas	Nicolas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	Sursock	Sursock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	donated	donate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Lebanese	Lebanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive | the illustrious Sursock family at the end of the 19th century | Sursock |  |  |  | as a private villa for Nicolas | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 2 | **donate** | participle | the illustrious Sursock family at the end of the 19th century *not said here* |  | the Lebanese state upon Sursock's death |  | then |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to state=Recipient |
| 3 | **die** |  | Sursock |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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