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title: Baghdad was also a significant center of Islamic religious learning,… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: Baghdad was also a significant center of Islamic religious learning, with Al-Jahiz contributing to the formation of Mu'tazili theology, as well as Al-Tabari culminating in the scholarship on the Quranic exegesis. Who acts: Baghdad, significant center, Al. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its
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# Baghdad, sentence 95

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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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Baghdad was also a significant center of Islamic religious learning, with Al-Jahiz contributing to the formation of Mu'tazili theology, as well as Al-Tabari culminating in the scholarship on the Quranic exegesis.

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**Who acts:** Baghdad, significant center, Al · **What happens:** be, contribute, culminate · **To what, where:** significant center, formation, scholarship

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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, significant center, Al), 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:95
# text = Baghdad was also a significant center of Islamic religious learning, with Al-Jahiz contributing to the formation of Mu'tazili theology, as well as Al-Tabari culminating in the scholarship on the Quranic exegesis.
1	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Jahiz	Jahiz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
16	contributing	contribute	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Mu'tazili	Mu'tazili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	theology	theology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	30	advmod	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Tabari	Tabari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
30	culminating	culminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	scholarship	scholarship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Quranic	quranic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	exegesis	exegesis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Baghdad | a significant center |  |  |  | of Islamic religious learning | tree rules |
| 2 | **contribute** | gerund | a significant center *not said here* |  | the formation of Mu'tazili theology |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to formation=Recipient |
| 3 | **culminate** | gerund | Al |  |  | the scholarship |  | on the Quranic exegesis | tree rules |

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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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