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title: An extensive facing of Neo-Babylonian brickwork has been identified… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: An extensive facing of Neo-Babylonian brickwork has been identified along the western bank of the Tigris at Baghdad, with bricks stamped with the name and titles of Nebuchadnezzar II. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 45

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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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An extensive facing of Neo-Babylonian brickwork has been identified along the western bank of the Tigris at Baghdad, with bricks stamped with the name and titles of Nebuchadnezzar II.

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**What happens:** face, identify, stamp · **To what, where:** extensive Neo-Babylonian brickwork, bricks

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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: 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:45
# text = An extensive facing of Neo-Babylonian brickwork has been identified along the western bank of the Tigris at Baghdad, with bricks stamped with the name and titles of Nebuchadnezzar II.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
5	Neo-Babylonian	neo-babylonian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brickwork	brickwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	identified	identify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Tigris	Tigris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
22	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	titles	title	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **identify** | present · perfect · passive |  | a extensive Neo-Babylonian brickwork |  |  |  | along the western bank of the Tigris at Baghdad; with bricks | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **stamp** | participle |  | bricks *not said here* |  |  |  | with the name and titles of II  Nebuchadnezzar | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with name=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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