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title: The airport was opened by Saddam Hussein in 1982 as Saddam Internati… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: The airport was opened by Saddam Hussein in 1982 as Saddam International Airport. Who acts: Saddam. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 474

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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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The airport was opened by Saddam Hussein in 1982 as Saddam International Airport.

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**Who acts:** Saddam · **What happens:** open · **To what, where:** airport, 1982

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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 (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:474
# text = The airport was opened by Saddam Hussein in 1982 as Saddam International Airport.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Saddam	Saddam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	Hussein	Hussein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1982	1982	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Saddam	Saddam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Airport	Airport	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · passive | Saddam | the airport |  | 1982 |  | as International Airport | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1982=Location |

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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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