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title: This was a good example of the sort of library built up out of the n… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: This was a good example of the sort of library built up out of the needs and interests of a literary society. Who acts: This. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 108

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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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This was a good example of the sort of library built up out of the needs and interests of a literary society.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, build up, sort, interest · **To what, where:** good example, library, needs, literary society

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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 (This), 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:108
# text = This was a good example of the sort of library built up out of the needs and interests of a literary society.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | a good example |  |  |  | of the sort of library | tree rules |
| 2 | **build up** | participle |  | library *not said here* |  | the needs and interests of a literary society |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | library |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **interest** |  |  | a literary society |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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