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title: Mandaeans had cultural club in Al-Zawraa, where poetry evenings and… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: Mandaeans had cultural club in Al-Zawraa, where poetry evenings and cultural seminars were held, attended by poets, writers, artists, officials, and dignitaries of the communities. Who acts: Mandaeans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 581

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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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Mandaeans had cultural club in Al-Zawraa, where poetry evenings and cultural seminars were held, attended by poets, writers, artists, officials, and dignitaries of the communities.

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**Who acts:** Mandaeans · **What happens:** have, hold, attend · **To what, where:** cultural club, Al, poetry evenings

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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 (Mandaeans), 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:581
# text = Mandaeans had cultural club in Al-Zawraa, where poetry evenings and cultural seminars were held, attended by poets, writers, artists, officials, and dignitaries of the communities.
1	Mandaeans	mandaean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Zawraa	Zawraa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
11	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	evenings	evening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	seminars	seminar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	dignitaries	dignitary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Mandaeans | cultural club |  | Al |  | dignitaries of the communities *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | past · passive |  | poetry evenings and cultural seminars |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **attend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by poets and writers and artists and officials | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by poet=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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