Baghdad, sentence 118
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.
The Seljuks expelled the Buyid dynasty of Shiites that had ruled for some time and took over power and control of Baghdad.
Who acts: Seljuks · What happens: expel, rule, take over · To what, where: Buyid dynasty, power
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 (Seljuks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Seljuks | det |
| 2 | Seljuks | seljuk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 expelled | nsubj |
| 3 | expelled | expel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dynasty | det |
| 5 | Buyid | Buyid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dynasty | compound |
| 6 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expelled | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Shiites | case |
| 8 | Shiites | Shiite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 dynasty | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ruled | aux |
| 11 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dynasty | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruled | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 expelled | conj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 control | cc |
| 20 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 power | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Baghdad | case |
| 22 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 control | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 expelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expel | past | the Seljuks | the Buyid dynasty of Shiites | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dynasty=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rule | past · perfect · passive | the Buyid dynasty of Shiites | time | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take over | past | the Seljuks not said here | power and control of Baghdad | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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