Baghdad, sentence 157
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 overall importance of Baghdad to the Ottomans was that they made the headquarters of the Sixth Corps of the Ottoman Army in the city.
Who acts: overall importance · What happens: be · To what, where: city
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 (overall importance), 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 | 3 importance | det |
| 2 | overall | overall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 importance | amod |
| 3 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Baghdad | case |
| 5 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 importance | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Ottomans | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ottomans | det |
| 8 | Ottomans | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 importance | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | cop |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 made | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 headquarters | det |
| 14 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Corps | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Corps | det |
| 17 | Sixth | Sixth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Corps | compound |
| 18 | Corps | Corps | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 headquarters | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Army | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Army | det |
| 21 | Ottoman | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Army | compound |
| 22 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Corps | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the overall importance of Baghdad to the Ottomans | the city | importance nsubj; the headquarters of the Sixth Corps of the Ottoman Army obj; make property | tree rules |
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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