Baghdad, sentence 49
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.
He believed Baghdad was ideal for ruling the Islamic Empire.
Who acts: Baghdad · What happens: believe, be, rule · To what, where: Islamic Empire · 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 (Baghdad), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ideal | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ideal | cop |
| 5 | ideal | ideal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 believed | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 ruling | mark |
| 7 | ruling | rule | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ideal | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Empire | det |
| 9 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Empire | amod |
| 10 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruling | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Baghdad | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Baghdad | ideal property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rule | gerund | Baghdad not said here | the Islamic Empire | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent empire=Result |
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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