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title: A majority of 15,000 Iraqi Jews lived in Baghdad during Saddam Husse… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: A majority of 15,000 Iraqi Jews lived in Baghdad during Saddam Hussein's rule. Who acts: majority, Saddam. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 407

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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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A majority of 15,000 Iraqi Jews lived in Baghdad during Saddam Hussein's rule.

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**Who acts:** majority, Saddam · **What happens:** live, rule · **To what, where:** Baghdad

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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 (majority, Saddam), 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:407
# text = A majority of 15,000 Iraqi Jews lived in Baghdad during Saddam Hussein's rule.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	15,000	15000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	Iraqi	Iraqi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	Saddam	Saddam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Hussein	Hussein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
14	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a majority of 15,000 Iraqi Jews |  |  | Baghdad | during Saddam's rule |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in baghdad=Location |
| 2 | **rule** |  | Saddam |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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