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title: Beirut V (Nahr Beirut, Beirut River) was discovered by Dillenseger a… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: Beirut V (Nahr Beirut, Beirut River) was discovered by Dillenseger and said to be in an orchard of mulberry trees on the left bank of the river, near the river mouth, and to be close to the railway station and bridge to Tripoli. Who acts: Dillenseger. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its depe
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# Beirut, sentence 39

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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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Beirut V (Nahr Beirut, Beirut River) was discovered by Dillenseger and said to be in an orchard of mulberry trees on the left bank of the river, near the river mouth, and to be close to the railway station and bridge to Tripoli.

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**Who acts:** Dillenseger · **What happens:** discover, say, be · **To what, where:** Beirut V, orchard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dillenseger), 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:39
# text = Beirut V (Nahr Beirut, Beirut River) was discovered by Dillenseger and said to be in an orchard of mulberry trees on the left bank of the river, near the river mouth, and to be close to the railway station and bridge to Tripoli.
1	Beirut	beirut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	V	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Nahr	Nahr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Dillenseger	Dillenseger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	mulberry	mulberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	near	near	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
40	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Tripoli	Tripoli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past · passive | Dillenseger | Beirut V |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dillenseger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a orchard and the river mouth |  | of mulberry trees on the left bank of the river; the river mouth *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | Dillenseger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the railway station to Tripoli and bridge; close *property* | tree rules |

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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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