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title: When the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur founded a completely new city for… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur founded a completely new city for his capital, he chose the name "City of peace" (مدینة السلام), which now refers to the Round City of Baghdad proper. Who acts: Abbasid caliph, caliph, مدینة السلام. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pr
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# Baghdad, sentence 41

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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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When the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur founded a completely new city for his capital, he chose the name "City of peace" (مدینة السلام), which now refers to the Round City of Baghdad proper.

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**Who acts:** Abbasid caliph, caliph, مدینة السلام · **What happens:** found, choose, refer · **To what, where:** new city, name

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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 (Abbasid caliph, caliph, مدینة السلام), 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:41
# text = When the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur founded a completely new city for his capital, he chose the name "City of peace" (مدینة السلام), which now refers to the Round City of Baghdad proper.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Abbasid	Abbasid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Mansur	Mansur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	مدینة	مدینة	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	السلام	السلام	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Round	Round	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past | the Abbasid caliph | a new city |  |  |  | for caliph's capital | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
| 2 | **choose** | past | caliph | the name |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **refer** | present | مدینة السلام |  |  |  | now | to the Round City of Baghdad; properly *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to city=Co-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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