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title: The Lebanese liquidity crisis, coupled with nationwide corruption an… — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lebanese liquidity crisis, coupled with nationwide corruption and disasters such as the 2020 Beirut explosion, precipitated the collapse of Lebanon's currency and fomented political instability, widespread resource shortages, and high unemployment and poverty. Who acts: 2020 Beirut explosion, cu
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# Lebanon, sentence 19

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From Wikipedia, [«Lebanon»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon), 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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The Lebanese liquidity crisis, coupled with nationwide corruption and disasters such as the 2020 Beirut explosion, precipitated the collapse of Lebanon's currency and fomented political instability, widespread resource shortages, and high unemployment and poverty.

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**Who acts:** 2020 Beirut explosion, currency · **What happens:** couple, precipitate, foment, collapse · **To what, where:** Lebanese liquidity crisis, collapse, political instability

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lebanon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (2020 Beirut explosion, currency), 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:Lebanon:19
# text = The Lebanese liquidity crisis, coupled with nationwide corruption and disasters such as the 2020 Beirut explosion, precipitated the collapse of Lebanon's currency and fomented political instability, widespread resource shortages, and high unemployment and poverty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Lebanese	Lebanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	liquidity	liquidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	coupled	couple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	nationwide	nationwide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	disasters	disaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	precipitated	precipitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	collapse	collapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	currency	currency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	fomented	foment	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	instability	instability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	resource	resource	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	shortages	shortage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	unemployment	unemployment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **couple** | participle |  | the Lebanese liquidity crisis and high unemployment and poverty *not said here* |  |  |  | with nationwide corruption and disasters such the 2020 Beirut explosion | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with corruption=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **precipitate** | participle | the 2020 Beirut explosion *not said here* | the collapse of Lebanon's currency |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **foment** | past | the 2020 Beirut explosion *not said here* | political instability and widespread resource shortages |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **collapse** |  | Lebanon's currency |  |  |  |  |  | nom collapse «state intransitive»: of=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, «Lebanon», 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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