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title: The Ottoman Empire, recognising defeat in World War I by October 191… — Baku · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ottoman Empire, recognising defeat in World War I by October 1918, signed the Armistice of Mudros with the British (30 October 1918); this meant the evacuation of Turkish forces from Baku. Who acts: Ottoman Empire, this, October. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baku» with its dependency tree and prag
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# Baku, sentence 110

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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 Ottoman Empire, recognising defeat in World War I by October 1918, signed the Armistice of Mudros with the British (30 October 1918); this meant the evacuation of Turkish forces from Baku.

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**Who acts:** Ottoman Empire, this, October · **What happens:** recognise, sign, mean, defeat, evacuate · **To what, where:** Armistice, evacuation, Baku, World War, Turkish forces

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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 (Ottoman Empire, this, October), 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:110
# text = The Ottoman Empire, recognising defeat in World War I by October 1918, signed the Armistice of Mudros with the British (30 October 1918); this meant the evacuation of Turkish forces from Baku.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ottoman	Ottoman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	recognising	recognise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Armistice	Armistice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Mudros	Mudros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
30	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	evacuation	evacuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Baku	Baku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sign** | past | the Ottoman Empire | the Armistice of Mudros |  |  | october |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent armistice=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | past | this | the evacuation of Turkish forces |  | Baku |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evacuation=Topic |
| 4 | **defeat** |  | October  I |  |  | World War |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: in=place by=agent |
| 5 | **evacuate** |  |  | Turkish forces |  |  |  |  | nom evacuation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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