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title: Greek Orthodox (with the exception of Easter), Catholics, Protestant… — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics
description: Greek Orthodox (with the exception of Easter), Catholics, Protestants, and Melkite Christians follow the Gregorian Calendar and thus celebrate Christmas on 25 December. Who acts: Melkite Christians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lebanon» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lebanon, sentence 608

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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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Greek Orthodox (with the exception of Easter), Catholics, Protestants, and Melkite Christians follow the Gregorian Calendar and thus celebrate Christmas on 25 December.

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**Who acts:** Melkite Christians · **What happens:** follow, celebrate, except · **To what, where:** Gregorian Calendar, Christmas, 25, Easter

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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 (Melkite Christians), 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:608
# text = Greek Orthodox (with the exception of Easter), Catholics, Protestants, and Melkite Christians follow the Gregorian Calendar and thus celebrate Christmas on 25 December.
1	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Orthodox	Orthodox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Protestants	Protestant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	Melkite	Melkite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Gregorian	gregorian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Calendar	Calendar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
28	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | Melkite Christians | the Gregorian Calendar |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calendar=Theme |
| 2 | **celebrate** | infinitive | Melkite Christians *not said here* | Christmas |  | 25  December |  | thus *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Theme |
| 4 | **except** |  |  | Easter |  |  |  |  | nom exception «cognition 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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