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title: In December 2015, the Lebanese government signed an agreement with C… — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics
description: In December 2015, the Lebanese government signed an agreement with Chinook Industrial Mining, part owned by Chinook Sciences, to export over 100,000 tons of untreated waste from Beirut and the surrounding area. Who acts: Lebanese government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lebanon» with its dependency tr
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# Lebanon, sentence 312

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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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In December 2015, the Lebanese government signed an agreement with Chinook Industrial Mining, part owned by Chinook Sciences, to export over 100,000 tons of untreated waste from Beirut and the surrounding area.

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**Who acts:** Lebanese government · **What happens:** sign, own, export · **To what, where:** agreement, part, 100,000 tons

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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 (Lebanese government), 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:312
# text = In December 2015, the Lebanese government signed an agreement with Chinook Industrial Mining, part owned by Chinook Sciences, to export over 100,000 tons of untreated waste from Beirut and the surrounding area.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Lebanese	Lebanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Chinook	Chinook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Industrial	industrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Chinook	Chinook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Sciences	Science	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	export	export	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	over	over	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	tons	ton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	untreated	untreated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | past | the Lebanese government | a agreement and part |  |  | december | with Chinook Industrial Mining | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent agreement=Destination with mining=Theme |
| 2 | **own** | participle |  | part *not said here* |  |  |  | Chinook Sciences *obl:agent* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **export** | to-infinitive | the Lebanese government *not said here* | 100,000 tons of untreated waste from Beirut and the surrounding area |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ton=Theme |

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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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