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title: Baghdad became a provincial capital controlled by the Mongol Jalayir… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: Baghdad became a provincial capital controlled by the Mongol Jalayirid (1400–1411), Turkic Kara Koyunlu (1411–1469), Turkic Ak Koyunlu (1469–1508), and the Iranian Safavid (1508–1534) dynasties. Who acts: Baghdad. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 141

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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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Baghdad became a provincial capital controlled by the Mongol Jalayirid (1400–1411), Turkic Kara Koyunlu (1411–1469), Turkic Ak Koyunlu (1469–1508), and the Iranian Safavid (1508–1534) dynasties.

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**Who acts:** Baghdad · **What happens:** become, control · **To what, where:** provincial capital

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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 (Baghdad), 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:141
# text = Baghdad became a provincial capital controlled by the Mongol Jalayirid (1400–1411), Turkic Kara Koyunlu (1411–1469), Turkic Ak Koyunlu (1469–1508), and the Iranian Safavid (1508–1534) dynasties.
1	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	provincial	provincial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
6	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Mongol	Mongol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	Jalayirid	Jalayirid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	1400	1400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	1411	1411	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Turkic	Turkic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Kara	Kara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
19	Koyunlu	Koyunlu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	1411	1411	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	1469	1469	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Turkic	Turkic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Ak	Ak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
28	Koyunlu	Koyunlu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	1469	1469	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	1508	1508	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Iranian	Iranian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Safavid	Safavid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	1508	1508	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	42	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	1534	1534	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
44	dynasties	dynasty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Baghdad | a provincial capital |  |  |  | Safavid dynasties *obl* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **control** | participle |  | a provincial capital *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Mongol and Turkic Kara and Turkic Ak | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: 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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