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title: It remained under Safavid rule until 1639 when Sultan Murad IV recap… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: It remained under Safavid rule until 1639 when Sultan Murad IV recaptured it in 1638. Who acts: army, Sultan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 144

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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 remained under Safavid rule until 1639 when Sultan Murad IV recaptured it in 1638.

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**Who acts:** army, Sultan · **What happens:** remain, recapture · **To what, where:** Safavid rule, army, 1638

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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 (army, Sultan), 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:144
# text = It remained under Safavid rule until 1639 when Sultan Murad IV recaptured it in 1638.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Safavid	Safavid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	until	until	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1639	1639	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	IV	IV	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
12	recaptured	recapture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1638	1638	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | army |  |  | Safavid rule | until 1639 |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rule=Location |
| 2 | **recapture** | past | Sultan | army |  | 1638 |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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