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title: Wrapped in a sack, it was thrown into the Great Mosque of Kufa in Ir… — Bahrain · tree and pragmatics
description: Wrapped in a sack, it was thrown into the Great Mosque of Kufa in Iraq, accompanied by a note saying "By command we took it, and by command, we have brought it back." Who acts: note, we. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bahrain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bahrain, sentence 77

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From Wikipedia, [«Bahrain»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain), 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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Wrapped in a sack, it was thrown into the Great Mosque of Kufa in Iraq, accompanied by a note saying "By command we took it, and by command, we have brought it back."

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**Who acts:** note, we · **What happens:** wrap, throw, accompany, say, take, bring back · **To what, where:** sack, Stone, Great Mosque, command · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bahrain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (note, we), 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:Bahrain:77
# text = Wrapped in a sack, it was thrown into the Great Mosque of Kufa in Iraq, accompanied by a note saying "By command we took it, and by command, we have brought it back."
1	Wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Mosque	Mosque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	By	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | participle |  |  |  | a sack |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in sack=Destination |
| 2 | **throw** | past · passive |  | Stone |  | the Great Mosque of Kufa |  | in Iraq | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into mosque=Destination |
| 3 | **accompany** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a note | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by note=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a note *not said here* | command |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent command=Topic |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | past | we | Stone |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **bring back** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | Stone |  |  |  | by command | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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, «Bahrain», 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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