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title: It has been argued that this marked an end to the Islamic Golden Age… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: It has been argued that this marked an end to the Islamic Golden Age and served a blow from which Islamic civilization never fully recovered. Who acts: this. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 134

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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 has been argued that this marked an end to the Islamic Golden Age and served a blow from which Islamic civilization never fully recovered.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** argue, mark, serve, not recover · **To what, where:** sack, end, blow, Islamic civilization · **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: 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:134
# text = It has been argued that this marked an end to the Islamic Golden Age and served a blow from which Islamic civilization never fully recovered.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
7	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Golden	Golden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	civilization	civilization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · perfect · passive |  | sack |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mark** | past | this | a end |  |  | to the Islamic Golden Age |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent end=Theme to age=Attribute |
| 3 | **serve** | past | this *not said here* | a blow |  | Islamic civilization  a blow |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Attribute |
| 4 | **not** **recover** | participle | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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