Baghdad, sentence 53
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.
They determined the city's auspicious founding date under the sign of Leo the lion, symbolizing strength and expansion.
Who acts: designers · What happens: determine, symbolize, sign · To what, where: auspicious founding date, sign, strength, Leo
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 (designers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 date | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 city | case |
| 6 | auspicious | auspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 date | amod |
| 7 | founding | founding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 date | compound |
| 8 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 determined | obj |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 sign | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sign | det |
| 11 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 determined | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Leo | case |
| 13 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sign | nmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lion | det |
| 15 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Leo | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 symbolizing | punct |
| 17 | symbolizing | symbolize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 determined | advcl |
| 18 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 symbolizing | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 expansion | cc |
| 20 | expansion | expansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strength | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | designers = designer | the city's auspicious founding date | the sign of Leo | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic | |||
| 2 | symbolize | gerund | designers = designer not said here | strength and expansion | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot strength=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sign | Leo | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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