Baghdad, sentence 443
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.
Baghdad, like other provinces such as Babylon, Karbala and Qadissiya, contains metals such as aluminum, ceramics, nickel, manganese and chromium, whose size is not yet known, being recently discovered by local Iraqi cadres lacking experience and mechanisms to determine the size of these explorations.
Who acts: Baghdad, local Iraqi cadres · What happens: contain, not know, discover, lack, determine · To what, where: metals, size, experience
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 (Baghdad, local Iraqi cadres), 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 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 contains | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 provinces | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 provinces | case |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 provinces | amod |
| 5 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Baghdad | appos |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 8 Babylon | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 provinces | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Karbala | punct |
| 10 | Karbala | Karbala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Babylon | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Qadissiya | cc |
| 12 | Qadissiya | Qadissiya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Babylon | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Baghdad | punct |
| 14 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 contains | obj |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 18 aluminum | case |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 such | fixed |
| 18 | aluminum | aluminum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 metals | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ceramics | punct |
| 20 | ceramics | ceramic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 aluminum | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 nickel | punct |
| 22 | nickel | nickel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 aluminum | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 manganese | punct |
| 24 | manganese | manganese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 aluminum | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 chromium | cc |
| 26 | chromium | chromium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 aluminum | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 known | punct |
| 28 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 29 size | nmod:poss |
| 29 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 known | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 known | aux:pass |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 known | advmod |
| 32 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 33 known | advmod |
| 33 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 chromium | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 discovered | punct |
| 35 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 discovered | aux:pass |
| 36 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 37 discovered | advmod |
| 37 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 known | xcomp |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 cadres | case |
| 39 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 cadres | amod |
| 40 | Iraqi | Iraqi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 cadres | amod |
| 41 | cadres | cadre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 discovered | obl:agent |
| 42 | lacking | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 cadres | acl |
| 43 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lacking | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 mechanisms | cc |
| 45 | mechanisms | mechanism | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 experience | conj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 determine | mark |
| 47 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 lacking | advcl |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 size | det |
| 49 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 determine | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 explorations | case |
| 51 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 52 explorations | det |
| 52 | explorations | exploration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 size | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | Baghdad | metals | such aluminum and ceramics and nickel and manganese and chromium | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot metal=Theme | |||
| 2 | not know | present · passive | size | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | discover | gerund · passive | local Iraqi cadres | recently property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lack | gerund | local Iraqi cadres not said here | experience and mechanisms | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | determine | to-infinitive | local Iraqi cadres not said here | the size of this explorations | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Topic |
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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