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title: The Baalbek and Beqaa Valley and Jabal Amel was ruled intermittently… — Lebanon · tree and pragmatics
description: The Baalbek and Beqaa Valley and Jabal Amel was ruled intermittently by various Shia feudal families, especially the Al Ali Alsagheer in Jabal Amel that remained in power until 1865 when Ottomans took direct ruling of the region. Who acts: feudal families, Ottomans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lebano
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# Lebanon, sentence 88

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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 Baalbek and Beqaa Valley and Jabal Amel was ruled intermittently by various Shia feudal families, especially the Al Ali Alsagheer in Jabal Amel that remained in power until 1865 when Ottomans took direct ruling of the region.

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**Who acts:** feudal families, Ottomans · **What happens:** rule, remain, take · **To what, where:** Baalbek, power, direct ruling, region

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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 (feudal families, Ottomans), 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:88
# text = The Baalbek and Beqaa Valley and Jabal Amel was ruled intermittently by various Shia feudal families, especially the Al Ali Alsagheer in Jabal Amel that remained in power until 1865 when Ottomans took direct ruling of the region.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Baalbek	Baalbek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	Beqaa	Beqaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Jabal	Jabal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	Amel	Amel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	intermittently	intermittently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Shia	Shia	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
15	feudal	feudal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Alsagheer	Alsagheer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Jabal	Jabal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	Amel	Amel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	until	until	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1865	1865	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
33	Ottomans	Ottoman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
35	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	ruling	ruling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past · passive | feudal families by various Shia  the Ali Alsagheer in Jabal | the Baalbek and Beqaa Valley and Jabal |  |  |  | intermittently *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 2 | **remain** | past | feudal families by various Shia  the Ali Alsagheer in Jabal |  |  | power | until 1865 |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in power=Location |
| 3 | **take** | past | Ottomans | direct ruling of the region |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruling=Theme |
| 4 | **rule** |  |  | the region |  |  |  |  | nom ruling «act 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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