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title: On 4 August 2020, an explosion at the port of Beirut, Lebanon's main… — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics
description: On 4 August 2020, an explosion at the port of Beirut, Lebanon's main port, destroyed the surrounding areas, killing over 200 people, and injuring thousands more. Who acts: explosion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lebanon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lebanon, sentence 228

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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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On 4 August 2020, an explosion at the port of Beirut, Lebanon's main port, destroyed the surrounding areas, killing over 200 people, and injuring thousands more.

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**Who acts:** explosion · **What happens:** destroy, surround, kill, injure · **To what, where:** surrounding areas, 200 people, more

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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 (explosion), 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:228
# text = On 4 August 2020, an explosion at the port of Beirut, Lebanon's main port, destroyed the surrounding areas, killing over 200 people, and injuring thousands more.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
4	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
19	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
25	over	over	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	injuring	injure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
31	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | past | a explosion at the port of Beirut | the surrounding areas |  |  | august |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient |
| 2 | **surround** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | gerund | a explosion at the port of Beirut *not said here* | 200 people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **injure** | gerund | a explosion at the port of Beirut *not said here* | more  thousands |  |  |  |  | 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, «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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