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title: The Maronite Catholics and the Druze founded modern Lebanon in the e… — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics
description: The Maronite Catholics and the Druze founded modern Lebanon in the early eighteenth century, through the ruling and social system known as the "Maronite-Druze dualism" in Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate. Who acts: Maronite Catholics. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lebanon» with its dependency tree and pragm
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# Lebanon, sentence 87

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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 Maronite Catholics and the Druze founded modern Lebanon in the early eighteenth century, through the ruling and social system known as the "Maronite-Druze dualism" in Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate.

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**Who acts:** Maronite Catholics · **What happens:** found, know · **To what, where:** modern Lebanon, social system

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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 (Maronite Catholics), 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:87
# text = The Maronite Catholics and the Druze founded modern Lebanon in the early eighteenth century, through the ruling and social system known as the "Maronite-Druze dualism" in Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Maronite	Maronite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Druze	Druze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	eighteenth	eighteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ruling	ruling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Maronite	maronite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Druze	Druze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	dualism	dualism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	Mutasarrifate	Mutasarrifate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past | the Maronite Catholics and the Druze | modern Lebanon |  |  | century | through the ruling and social system | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lebanon=Patient through ruling=Instrument |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | social system *not said here* |  |  |  | the Maronite Druze dualism in Mount Lebanon *advcl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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