Baghdad, sentence 134
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 has been argued that this marked an end to the Islamic Golden Age and served a blow from which Islamic civilization never fully recovered.
Who acts: this · What happens: argue, mark, serve, not recover · To what, where: sack, end, blow, Islamic civilization · 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: who acts (this), 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 argued | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 argued | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 argued | aux:pass |
| 4 | argued | argue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 marked | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 marked | nsubj |
| 7 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 argued | ccomp |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marked | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Age | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Age | det |
| 12 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Age | amod |
| 13 | Golden | Golden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Age | compound |
| 14 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 marked | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 served | cc |
| 16 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 marked | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 blow | det |
| 18 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 served | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 civilization | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 civilization | nsubj |
| 21 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 civilization | amod |
| 22 | civilization | civilization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blow | nmod |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 recovered | advmod |
| 24 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 25 recovered | advmod |
| 25 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 served | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 argued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present · perfect · passive | sack | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mark | past | this | a end | to the Islamic Golden Age | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent end=Theme to age=Attribute | |||
| 3 | serve | past | this not said here | a blow | Islamic civilization a blow | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Attribute | |||
| 4 | not recover | participle | this not said here | fully property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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