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title: Baku is the economic hub of Azerbaijan, hosting many of the country'… — Baku · tree and pragmatics
description: Baku is the economic hub of Azerbaijan, hosting many of the country's major companies and serving as the center for key industries such as oil and gas, finance, trade, and technology. Who acts: Baku. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baku» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baku, sentence 202

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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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Baku is the economic hub of Azerbaijan, hosting many of the country's major companies and serving as the center for key industries such as oil and gas, finance, trade, and technology.

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**Who acts:** Baku · **What happens:** be, host, serve · **To what, where:** economic hub, many

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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 (Baku), 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:202
# text = Baku is the economic hub of Azerbaijan, hosting many of the country's major companies and serving as the center for key industries such as oil and gas, finance, trade, and technology.
1	Baku	Baku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hosting	host	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	industries	industry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	finance	finance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Baku | the economic hub and technology |  |  |  | of Azerbaijan; technology *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **host** | gerund |  | many of the country's major companies |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **serve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as the center; for key industries such oil and gas and finance and trade | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as center=Attribute |

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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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