Baghdad, sentence 10

From Wikipedia, «Baghdad», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

It was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger for many centuries due to frequent plagues and shifts in power between multiple successive empires.

Who acts: decline · What happens: destroy, result, linger · To what, where: city, hands, decline

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Baghdad». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (decline), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 destroyed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 destroyed	aux:pass
3	largely	largely	ADV	_	4 destroyed	advmod
4	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hands	det
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 destroyed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Empire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Empire	det
10	Mongol	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Empire	compound
11	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hands	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 1258	case
13	1258	1258	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 destroyed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 resulting	punct
15	resulting	result	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 destroyed	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 decline	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 decline	det
18	decline	decline	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 resulting	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 linger	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 linger	aux
21	linger	linger	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 decline	acl:relcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 centuries	case
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 centuries	amod
24	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 linger	obl
25	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	28 plagues	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 due	fixed
27	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 plagues	amod
28	plagues	plague	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 resulting	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shifts	cc
30	shifts	shift	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 plagues	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 power	case
32	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 resulting	obl
33	between	between	ADP	_	36 empires	case
34	multiple	multiple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 empires	amod
35	successive	successive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 empires	amod
36	empires	empire	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 power	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 destroyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past · passive		city	the hands of the Mongol Empire		in 1258; largely property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	result	gerund			a decline		due frequent plagues and shifts; in power between multiple successive empires	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in decline=Location
3	linger	would	a decline			century		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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Baghdad, sentence 10