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title: The Azerbaijanis suffered defeat from the united forces of the Baku… — Baku · tree and pragmatics
description: The Azerbaijanis suffered defeat from the united forces of the Baku Soviet and were massacred by Dashnak teams in what was called the March Days. Who acts: Azerbaijanis, Dashnak teams. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baku» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baku, sentence 102

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From Wikipedia, [«Baku»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku), 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 Azerbaijanis suffered defeat from the united forces of the Baku Soviet and were massacred by Dashnak teams in what was called the March Days.

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**Who acts:** Azerbaijanis, Dashnak teams · **What happens:** suffer, massacre, call · **To what, where:** defeat, united forces · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Baku». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Azerbaijanis, Dashnak teams), 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:Baku:102
# text = The Azerbaijanis suffered defeat from the united forces of the Baku Soviet and were massacred by Dashnak teams in what was called the March Days.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Azerbaijanis	Azerbaijani	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	united	united	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Baku	Baku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	massacred	massacre	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Dashnak	Dashnak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Days	Day	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past | the Azerbaijanis | defeat |  | the united forces of the Baku Soviet |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer defeat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **massacre** | past · passive | Dashnak teams |  |  |  |  | what *obl* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | the March Days |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

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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, «Baku», 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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