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title: The city flourished into an unrivaled intellectual center of science… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: The city flourished into an unrivaled intellectual center of science, medicine, philosophy, and education, especially with the Abbasid translation movement began under the second caliph Al-Mansur and thrived under the seventh caliph Al-Ma'mun. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with
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# Baghdad, sentence 88

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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 city flourished into an unrivaled intellectual center of science, medicine, philosophy, and education, especially with the Abbasid translation movement began under the second caliph Al-Mansur and thrived under the seventh caliph Al-Ma'mun.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** flourish, begin, thrive · **To what, where:** city, unrivaled intellectual center, second caliph, seventh caliph

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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 (city), 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:88
# text = The city flourished into an unrivaled intellectual center of science, medicine, philosophy, and education, especially with the Abbasid translation movement began under the second caliph Al-Mansur and thrived under the seventh caliph Al-Ma'mun.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
3	flourished	flourish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	unrivaled	unrivaled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Abbasid	Abbasid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
25	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Mansur	Mansur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	thrived	thrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	under	under	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Ma'mun	Ma'mun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flourish** | participle |  | the city and education and the Abbasid translation movement *not said here* |  | a unrivaled intellectual center of science and medicine and philosophy |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the city and education and the Abbasid translation movement |  |  | the second caliph |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **thrive** | past | the city and education and the Abbasid translation movement *not said here* |  |  | the seventh caliph |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under caliph=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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