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title: It was notable for the discovery of a finely styled Canaanean blade… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: It was notable for the discovery of a finely styled Canaanean blade javelin suggested to date to the early or middle Neolithic periods of Byblos and which is held in the school library. Who acts: area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beirut, sentence 43

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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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It was notable for the discovery of a finely styled Canaanean blade javelin suggested to date to the early or middle Neolithic periods of Byblos and which is held in the school library.

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**Who acts:** area · **What happens:** be, style, suggest, hold, discover · **To what, where:** styled Canaanean blade javelin, date, Byblos, school library

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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 (area), 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:43
# text = It was notable for the discovery of a finely styled Canaanean blade javelin suggested to date to the early or middle Neolithic periods of Byblos and which is held in the school library.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	notable	notable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	styled	style	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
11	Canaanean	canaanean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	javelin	javelin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
14	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	periods	period	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Byblos	Byblos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | area |  |  |  |  | for the discovery of a styled Canaanean blade javelin; notable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **style** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | finely *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | participle |  | a styled Canaanean blade javelin *not said here* | date |  |  | to the early Neolithic periods of Byblos | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to date=Recipient |
| 4 | **hold** | present · passive |  | Byblos |  | the school library |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in library=Location |
| 5 | **discover** |  |  | a styled Canaanean blade javelin |  |  |  |  | nom discovery «act transitive»: of=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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