Baghdad, sentence 176
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 plan proposed to build a cultural hub on an island on the river, with an opera house, museums, a university, shopping malls, and a 300-foot statue of the fifth Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid.
What happens: propose, build · To what, where: plan, cultural hub, island
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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 plan | det |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 plan | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 build | mark |
| 5 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 proposed | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hub | det |
| 7 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hub | amod |
| 8 | hub | hub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 river | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 river | det |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 house | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 18 | opera | opera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | compound |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 museums | punct |
| 21 | museums | museum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 house | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 university | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 university | det |
| 24 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 malls | punct |
| 26 | shopping | shopping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 malls | compound |
| 27 | malls | mall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 university | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 statue | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 statue | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 statue | det |
| 31 | 300-foot | 300-foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 statue | compound |
| 32 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plan | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 caliph | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 caliph | det |
| 35 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 caliph | amod |
| 36 | Abbasid | Abbasid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 caliph | compound |
| 37 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 statue | nmod |
| 38 | Harun | Harun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 caliph | appos |
| 39 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Harun | flat |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Rashid | punct |
| 41 | Rashid | Rashid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Harun | flat |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | participle | the plan not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive | a cultural hub | a island | on the river; with a opera house and museums and a university and shopping malls | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hub=Theme on island=Source |
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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