--- title: Controversy arose on 26 June 2012 when authorisation was given by Le… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics description: Controversy arose on 26 June 2012 when authorisation was given by Lebanese Minister of Culture Gaby Layoun for a private company called Venus Towers Real Estate Development Company to destroy the ruins (archaeological site BEY194) in the $500 million construction project of three skyscrapers and a g --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beirut/53/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Beirut](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beirut/) / 53 # Beirut, sentence 53 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. Controversy arose on 26 June 2012 when authorisation was given by Lebanese Minister of Culture Gaby Layoun for a private company called Venus Towers Real Estate Development Company to destroy the ruins (archaeological site BEY194) in the $500 million construction project of three skyscrapers and a garden behind Hotel Monroe in downtown Beirut. **Who acts:** Controversy, Lebanese Minister, private company · **What happens:** arise, give, call, destroy, project · **To what, where:** 26, authorisation, Venus Towers, ruins, three skyscrapers · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Controversy, Lebanese Minister, private company), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:53 # text = Controversy arose on 26 June 2012 when authorisation was given by Lebanese Minister of Culture Gaby Layoun for a private company called Venus Towers Real Estate Development Company to destroy the ruins (archaeological site BEY194) in the $500 million construction project of three skyscrapers and a garden behind Hotel Monroe in downtown Beirut. 1 Controversy Controversy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 26 26 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 5 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 6 2012 2012 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 flat _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 8 authorisation authorisation NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 Lebanese Lebanese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 Culture Culture PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Gaby Gaby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 Layoun Layoun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 22 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 Venus Venus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 xcomp _ _ 25 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 Estate Estate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Development Development PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Company Company PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 ruins ruin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 archaeological archaeological ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 site site NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 36 BEY194 BEY194 PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 $ $ SYM $ _ 44 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 41 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 compound _ _ 42 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 43 construction construction NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 nummod _ _ 47 skyscrapers skyscraper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 51 behind behind ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 Hotel Hotel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 Monroe monroe NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 downtown downtown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 Beirut beirut NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arise** | past | Controversy | | | 26 June | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on 26=Location | | 2 | **give** | past · passive | Lebanese Minister of Culture Gaby | authorisation | | | | for a private company | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for company=Asset | | 3 | **call** | participle | a private company *not said here* | Venus Towers Real Development Company | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | a private company *not said here* | the ruins | | | | construction project of three skyscrapers and a garden behind Hotel Monroe in downtown Beirut *obl* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruin=Patient | | 5 | **project** | | | three skyscrapers | | | | | nom project «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beirut/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beirut/54/) - ↑ back to [Beirut](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beirut/)