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title: There, local councils were elected from 20 neighborhoods (Nahia) and… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: There, local councils were elected from 20 neighborhoods (Nahia) and these councils elected representatives from their members to serve on six district councils (Qada). Who acts: councils. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 300

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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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There, local councils were elected from 20 neighborhoods (Nahia) and these councils elected representatives from their members to serve on six district councils (Qada).

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**Who acts:** councils · **What happens:** elect, serve · **To what, where:** local councils, 20 neighborhoods, representatives, members, six district councils

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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 (councils), 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:300
# text = There, local councils were elected from 20 neighborhoods (Nahia) and these councils elected representatives from their members to serve on six district councils (Qada).
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	neighborhoods	neighborhood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Nahia	Nahia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	elected	elect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	representatives	representative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	district	district	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Qada	Qada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elect** | past · passive |  | local councils |  | 20 neighborhoods; there |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **elect** | past | this councils | representatives |  | representatives's members |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent representative=Theme |
| 3 | **serve** | to-infinitive | this councils *not said here* |  |  | six district councils |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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