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title: Soon after, by December 1058, a Shi'i adhān (call to prayer) was imp… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after, by December 1058, a Shi'i adhān (call to prayer) was implemented in Baghdad and a khutbah (sermon) was delivered in the name of the Fatimid Imam-Caliph. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 126

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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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Soon after, by December 1058, a Shi'i adhān (call to prayer) was implemented in Baghdad and a khutbah (sermon) was delivered in the name of the Fatimid Imam-Caliph.

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**What happens:** call, implement, deliver, name · **To what, where:** prayer, December, Baghdad, Fatimid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:126
# text = Soon after, by December 1058, a Shi'i adhān (call to prayer) was implemented in Baghdad and a khutbah (sermon) was delivered in the name of the Fatimid Imam-Caliph.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	1058	1058	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Shi'i	Shi'i	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	adhān	adhān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	implemented	implement	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	khutbah	khutbah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	sermon	sermon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Fatimid	Fatimid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	Imam	Imam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | infinitive |  |  | prayer |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prayer=Recipient |
| 2 | **implement** | past · passive |  | December  1058 |  |  |  | a Shi'i adhān *nsubj:pass*; soon *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **deliver** | past · passive |  |  |  | Baghdad and a khutbah |  | in the name of the Fatimid | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | the Fatimid |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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