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title: Many of the city's cultural sites were celebrated in 2009 when Baku… — Baku · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of the city's cultural sites were celebrated in 2009 when Baku was designated an Islamic Culture Capital. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baku» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baku, sentence 261

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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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Many of the city's cultural sites were celebrated in 2009 when Baku was designated an Islamic Culture Capital.

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**What happens:** celebrate, designate · **To what, where:** Many, 2009, Baku

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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:261
# text = Many of the city's cultural sites were celebrated in 2009 when Baku was designated an Islamic Culture Capital.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	Baku	Baku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | Many of the city's cultural sites |  | 2009 |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **designate** | past · passive |  | Baku |  |  |  | a Islamic Culture Capital *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme capital=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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