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title: Baghdad, like other provinces such as Babylon, Karbala and Qadissiya… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: Baghdad, like other provinces such as Babylon, Karbala and Qadissiya, contains metals such as aluminum, ceramics, nickel, manganese and chromium, whose size is not yet known, being recently discovered by local Iraqi cadres lacking experience and mechanisms to determine the size of these explorations
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# Baghdad, sentence 443

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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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Baghdad, like other provinces such as Babylon, Karbala and Qadissiya, contains metals such as aluminum, ceramics, nickel, manganese and chromium, whose size is not yet known, being recently discovered by local Iraqi cadres lacking experience and mechanisms to determine the size of these explorations.

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**Who acts:** Baghdad, local Iraqi cadres · **What happens:** contain, not know, discover, lack, determine · **To what, where:** metals, size, experience

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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, local Iraqi cadres), 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:443
# text = Baghdad, like other provinces such as Babylon, Karbala and Qadissiya, contains metals such as aluminum, ceramics, nickel, manganese and chromium, whose size is not yet known, being recently discovered by local Iraqi cadres lacking experience and mechanisms to determine the size of these explorations.
1	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Karbala	Karbala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Qadissiya	Qadissiya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	aluminum	aluminum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	ceramics	ceramic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	manganese	manganese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	chromium	chromium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	Iraqi	Iraqi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	cadres	cadre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl:agent	_	_
42	lacking	lack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
43	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	mechanisms	mechanism	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	determine	determine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	52	det	_	_
52	explorations	exploration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | Baghdad | metals |  |  |  | such aluminum and ceramics and nickel and manganese and chromium | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot metal=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present · passive |  | size |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **discover** | gerund · passive | local Iraqi cadres |  |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lack** | gerund | local Iraqi cadres *not said here* | experience and mechanisms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **determine** | to-infinitive | local Iraqi cadres *not said here* | the size of this explorations |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Topic |

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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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