Baghdad, sentence 88
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.
The city flourished into an unrivaled intellectual center of science, medicine, philosophy, and education, especially with the Abbasid translation movement began under the second caliph Al-Mansur and thrived under the seventh caliph Al-Ma'mun.
Who acts: city · What happens: flourish, begin, thrive · To what, where: city, unrivaled intellectual center, second caliph, seventh caliph
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 (city), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 began | nsubj |
| 3 | flourished | flourish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 city | acl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 center | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 center | det |
| 6 | unrivaled | unrivaled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 center | amod |
| 7 | intellectual | intellectual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 center | amod |
| 8 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flourished | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 science | case |
| 10 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 center | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 medicine | punct |
| 12 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 science | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 philosophy | punct |
| 14 | philosophy | philosophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 science | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 education | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 education | cc |
| 17 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 city | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 movement | punct |
| 19 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 24 movement | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 movement | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 movement | det |
| 22 | Abbasid | Abbasid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 movement | compound |
| 23 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 movement | compound |
| 24 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 city | conj |
| 25 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 caliph | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 caliph | det |
| 28 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 caliph | amod |
| 29 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 began | obl |
| 30 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 caliph | appos |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Al | punct |
| 32 | Mansur | Mansur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Al | flat |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 thrived | cc |
| 34 | thrived | thrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 began | conj |
| 35 | under | under | ADP | _ | 38 caliph | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 caliph | det |
| 37 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 caliph | amod |
| 38 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 thrived | obl |
| 39 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 caliph | appos |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Al | punct |
| 41 | Ma'mun | Ma'mun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Al | flat |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flourish | participle | the city and education and the Abbasid translation movement not said here | a unrivaled intellectual center of science and medicine and philosophy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the city and education and the Abbasid translation movement | the second caliph | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | thrive | past | the city and education and the Abbasid translation movement not said here | the seventh caliph | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under caliph=Location |
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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