Baghdad, sentence 581
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.
Mandaeans had cultural club in Al-Zawraa, where poetry evenings and cultural seminars were held, attended by poets, writers, artists, officials, and dignitaries of the communities.
Who acts: Mandaeans · What happens: have, hold, attend · To what, where: cultural club, Al, poetry evenings
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 (Mandaeans), 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 | Mandaeans | mandaean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 club | amod |
| 4 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Al | case |
| 6 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Zawraa | punct |
| 8 | Zawraa | Zawraa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Al | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 held | advmod |
| 11 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 evenings | compound |
| 12 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 held | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seminars | cc |
| 14 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seminars | amod |
| 15 | seminars | seminar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 evenings | conj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 held | aux:pass |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Al | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 attended | punct |
| 19 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 held | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 poets | case |
| 21 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 attended | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 writers | punct |
| 23 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 poets | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 artists | punct |
| 25 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 poets | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 officials | punct |
| 27 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 poets | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dignitaries | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 dignitaries | cc |
| 30 | dignitaries | dignitary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 communities | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 communities | det |
| 33 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 dignitaries | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mandaeans | cultural club | Al | dignitaries of the communities parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Patient | ||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | poetry evenings and cultural seminars | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | attend | participle | by poets and writers and artists and officials | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by poet=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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