Baghdad, sentence 41
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.
When the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur founded a completely new city for his capital, he chose the name "City of peace" (مدینة السلام), which now refers to the Round City of Baghdad proper.
Who acts: Abbasid caliph, caliph, مدینة السلام · What happens: found, choose, refer · To what, where: new city, name
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 (Abbasid caliph, caliph, مدینة السلام), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 founded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 caliph | det |
| 3 | Abbasid | Abbasid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 caliph | compound |
| 4 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 founded | nsubj |
| 5 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 caliph | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mansur | punct |
| 7 | Mansur | Mansur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 al | flat |
| 8 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 chose | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 10 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 11 new | advmod |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 city | amod |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 founded | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 capital | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 capital | nmod:poss |
| 15 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 city | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 founded | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 chose | nsubj |
| 18 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 name | det |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chose | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 City | punct |
| 22 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 name | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 peace | case |
| 24 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 City | nmod |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 peace | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 السلام | punct |
| 27 | مدینة | مدینة | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 السلام | compound |
| 28 | السلام | السلام | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 peace | conj |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 السلام | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 refers | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 refers | nsubj |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 refers | advmod |
| 33 | refers | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 السلام | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 City | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 City | det |
| 36 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 City | compound |
| 37 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 refers | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Baghdad | case |
| 39 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 City | nmod |
| 40 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 33 refers | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past | the Abbasid caliph | a new city | for caliph's capital | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | |||
| 2 | choose | past | caliph | the name | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 3 | refer | present | مدینة السلام | now | to the Round City of Baghdad; properly property | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to city=Co-Theme |
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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