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title: During the 1998 bombing of Iraq, missiles struck multiple locations… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: During the 1998 bombing of Iraq, missiles struck multiple locations across Baghdad, including presidential palaces, several Republican Guard barrakcs, and offices of the Ministry of Defense and the Military industry. Who acts: missiles. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree an
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# Baghdad, sentence 222

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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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During the 1998 bombing of Iraq, missiles struck multiple locations across Baghdad, including presidential palaces, several Republican Guard barrakcs, and offices of the Ministry of Defense and the Military industry.

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**Who acts:** missiles · **What happens:** strike, bomb · **To what, where:** multiple locations, Baghdad, Iraq

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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 (missiles), 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:222
# text = During the 1998 bombing of Iraq, missiles struck multiple locations across Baghdad, including presidential palaces, several Republican Guard barrakcs, and offices of the Ministry of Defense and the Military industry.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	bombing	bombing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	missiles	missile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	multiple	multiple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	locations	location	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	including	including	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	Republican	Republican	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	barrakcs	barrakc	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Ministry	Ministry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Defense	Defense	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | missiles | multiple locations |  | Baghdad | during the 1998 bombing of Iraq | including presidential palaces and several Guard barrakcs; offices of the Ministry of Defense and the Military industry *obl* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent location=Patient |
| 2 | **bomb** |  |  | Iraq |  |  |  |  | nom bombing «act 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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