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title: The cause of the explosion was later determined to be 2,750 tonnes o… — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics
description: The cause of the explosion was later determined to be 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been unsafely stored, and accidentally set on fire that Tuesday afternoon. Who acts: cause, that. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lebanon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lebanon, sentence 229

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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 cause of the explosion was later determined to be 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been unsafely stored, and accidentally set on fire that Tuesday afternoon.

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**Who acts:** cause, that · **What happens:** be, store, set, afternoon, cause · **To what, where:** 2,750 tonnes, ammonium nitrate, fire, explosion

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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 (cause, that), 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:229
# text = The cause of the explosion was later determined to be 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been unsafely stored, and accidentally set on fire that Tuesday afternoon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	2,750	2,750	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	ccomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	ammonium	ammonium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	nitrate	nitrate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	unsafely	unsafely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the cause of the explosion |  |  |  |  | determined, late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the cause of the explosion *not said here* | 2,750 tonnes |  |  |  | of ammonium nitrate | tree rules |
| 3 | **store** | past · perfect · passive |  | ammonium nitrate |  |  |  | unsafely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | participle | the cause of the explosion *not said here* |  |  | fire and Tuesday afternoon |  | accidentally *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=Destination |
| 5 | **afternoon** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cause** |  |  | the explosion |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event 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, «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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