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title: He believed Baghdad was ideal for ruling the Islamic Empire. — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: He believed Baghdad was ideal for ruling the Islamic Empire. Who acts: Baghdad. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 49

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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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He believed Baghdad was ideal for ruling the Islamic Empire.

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**Who acts:** Baghdad · **What happens:** believe, be, rule · **To what, where:** Islamic Empire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:49
# text = He believed Baghdad was ideal for ruling the Islamic Empire.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	ideal	ideal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | Baghdad |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Baghdad |  |  |  |  | ideal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rule** | gerund | Baghdad *not said here* | the Islamic Empire |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent empire=Result |

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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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