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title: Improvements were made in general cleaning, maintenance, and garbage… — Baku · tree and pragmatics
description: Improvements were made in general cleaning, maintenance, and garbage collection to bring these services up to Western European standards. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baku» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baku, sentence 128

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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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Improvements were made in general cleaning, maintenance, and garbage collection to bring these services up to Western European standards.

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**What happens:** make, bring · **To what, where:** Improvements, general cleaning, services

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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: 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:128
# text = Improvements were made in general cleaning, maintenance, and garbage collection to bring these services up to Western European standards.
1	Improvements	improvement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	maintenance	maintenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	garbage	garbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | Improvements |  | general cleaning and maintenance |  | garbage collection *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive |  | this services |  |  |  | up Western European standards | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent service=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, «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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