Baghdad, sentence 28

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.

Archaeological evidence shows that the site of Baghdad was occupied long before the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia in 637 CE, and that several ancient empires had their capitals located in the surrounding area.

Who acts: Archaeological evidence, site, several ancient empires, that · What happens: show, be, have, locate · To what, where: 637 CE, that, surrounding area · 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 (Archaeological evidence, site, several ancient empires, that), 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	Archaeological	archaeological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 evidence	amod
2	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 occupied	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 site	det
6	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 occupied	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Baghdad	case
8	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 site	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 occupied	cop
10	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shows	ccomp
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 occupied	advmod
12	before	before	ADP	_	15 conquest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 conquest	det
14	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 conquest	amod
15	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 occupied	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Mesopotamia	case
17	Mesopotamia	Mesopotamia	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 conquest	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 CE	case
19	637	637	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 CE	nummod
20	CE	ce	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 had	obl
24	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 empires	amod
25	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 empires	amod
26	empires	empire	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shows	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 capitals	nmod:poss
29	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
30	located	locate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 had	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 area	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 area	det
33	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 area	compound
34	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 located	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Archaeological evidence		637 CE			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the site of Baghdad			before the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia	long, occupied property	tree rules
3	have	past	several ancient empires	that			coffeehouses's capitals obj	tree rules
4	locate	participle	that not said here		the surrounding area			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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Baghdad», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Baghdad, sentence 28