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title: It was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258,… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: It was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger for many centuries due to frequent plagues and shifts in power between multiple successive empires. Who acts: decline. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# Baghdad, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Baghdad»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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It was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger for many centuries due to frequent plagues and shifts in power between multiple successive empires.

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**Who acts:** decline · **What happens:** destroy, result, linger · **To what, where:** city, hands, decline

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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 (decline), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Baghdad:10
# text = It was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger for many centuries due to frequent plagues and shifts in power between multiple successive empires.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Mongol	Mongol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1258	1258	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	resulting	result	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	linger	linger	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	plagues	plague	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	shifts	shift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
33	between	between	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	multiple	multiple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | past · passive |  | city |  | the hands of the Mongol Empire |  | in 1258; largely *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **result** | gerund |  |  |  | a decline |  | due frequent plagues and shifts; in power between multiple successive empires | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in decline=Location |
| 3 | **linger** | would | a decline |  |  |  | century |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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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