Baghdad, sentence 126
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.
Soon after, by December 1058, a Shi'i adhān (call to prayer) was implemented in Baghdad and a khutbah (sermon) was delivered in the name of the Fatimid Imam-Caliph.
What happens: call, implement, deliver, name · To what, where: prayer, December, Baghdad, Fatimid · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 implemented | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 1 Soon | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 December | case |
| 5 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 implemented | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | 1058 | 1058 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 December | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 adhān | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 adhān | det |
| 9 | Shi'i | Shi'i | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 adhān | compound |
| 10 | adhān | adhān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 implemented | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 adhān | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 prayer | case |
| 14 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 call | obl |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 implemented | aux:pass |
| 17 | implemented | implement | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Baghdad | case |
| 19 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 delivered | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 khutbah | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 khutbah | det |
| 22 | khutbah | khutbah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Baghdad | conj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 sermon | punct |
| 24 | sermon | sermon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 khutbah | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 sermon | punct |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 delivered | aux:pass |
| 27 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 implemented | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 name | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 name | det |
| 30 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 delivered | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Fatimid | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Fatimid | det |
| 33 | Fatimid | Fatimid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 name | nmod |
| 34 | Imam | Imam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Fatimid | flat |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Caliph | punct |
| 36 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Fatimid | flat |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 implemented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | infinitive | prayer | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prayer=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | implement | past · passive | December 1058 | a Shi'i adhān nsubj:pass; soon property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | deliver | past · passive | Baghdad and a khutbah | in the name of the Fatimid | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 4 | name | the Fatimid | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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