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title: After the Seleucid Empire faced a state of civil war and decline, Ki… — Beirut · tree and pragmatics
description: After the Seleucid Empire faced a state of civil war and decline, King Tigranes the Great of the Kingdom of Armenia conquered Beirut and placed it under effective Armenian control. Who acts: Seleucid Empire, King Tigranes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beirut» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beirut, sentence 63

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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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After the Seleucid Empire faced a state of civil war and decline, King Tigranes the Great of the Kingdom of Armenia conquered Beirut and placed it under effective Armenian control.

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**Who acts:** Seleucid Empire, King Tigranes · **What happens:** face, conquer, place · **To what, where:** state, Beirut, effective Armenian control

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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 (Seleucid Empire, King Tigranes), 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:63
# text = After the Seleucid Empire faced a state of civil war and decline, King Tigranes the Great of the Kingdom of Armenia conquered Beirut and placed it under effective Armenian control.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Seleucid	Seleucid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Tigranes	Tigranes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Armenia	Armenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	Armenian	Armenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | past | the Seleucid Empire | a state of civil war and decline |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent state=Destination |
| 2 | **conquer** | past | King Tigranes | Beirut |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beirut=Patient |
| 3 | **place** | past | King Tigranes *not said here* | state |  | effective Armenian control |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under control=Destination |

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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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