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title: In 1960, Baghdad hosted an international conference with dignitaries… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1960, Baghdad hosted an international conference with dignitaries from Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, that founded Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Who acts: Baghdad, international conference. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 193

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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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In 1960, Baghdad hosted an international conference with dignitaries from Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, that founded Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

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**Who acts:** Baghdad, international conference · **What happens:** host, found, export · **To what, where:** international conference, 1960, Organization, Countries

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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, international conference), 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:193
# text = In 1960, Baghdad hosted an international conference with dignitaries from Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, that founded Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hosted	host	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	conference	conference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dignitaries	dignitary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Venezuela	Venezuela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
21	Organization	Organization	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Petroleum	Petroleum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	Exporting	export	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	Countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	OPEC	OPEC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **host** | past | Baghdad | a international conference |  | 1960 |  | with dignitaries from Iran and Venezuela and Saudi Arabia | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conference=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **found** | past | a international conference | Organization of Petroleum |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent organization=Patient |
| 3 | **export** | gerund | a international conference *not said here* | Countries |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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