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title: According to MP Jassim Al-Bukhati in 2021, "Baghdad's roads are desi… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: According to MP Jassim Al-Bukhati in 2021, "Baghdad's roads are designed to accommodate 700,000 cars, while now there are between 2.5 and 3 million cars on them". Who acts: 2.5 cars. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 458

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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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According to MP Jassim Al-Bukhati in 2021, "Baghdad's roads are designed to accommodate 700,000 cars, while now there are between 2.5 and 3 million cars on them".

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**Who acts:** 2.5 cars · **What happens:** accord, design, accommodate, be · **To what, where:** roads, 700,000 cars

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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 (2.5 cars), 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:458
# text = According to MP Jassim Al-Bukhati in 2021, "Baghdad's roads are designed to accommodate 700,000 cars, while now there are between 2.5 and 3 million cars on them".
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	MP	MP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Jassim	Jassim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Bukhati	Bukhati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	accommodate	accommodate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	700,000	700,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	2.5	2.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	compound	_	_
30	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	_
31	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **design** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Baghdad's roads |  |  |  | accord MP Jassim and Bukhati in 2021 | tree rules |
| 3 | **accommodate** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | 700,000 cars |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient |
| 4 | **does** *in a quote* | present | 2.5 cars on Jassim |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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