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title: The Old City of Baku, also known as the Walled City of Baku, refers… — Baku · tree and pragmatics
description: The Old City of Baku, also known as the Walled City of Baku, refers to the ancient Baku settlement. Who acts: Old City. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baku» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baku, sentence 318

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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 Old City of Baku, also known as the Walled City of Baku, refers to the ancient Baku settlement.

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**Who acts:** Old City · **What happens:** know, refer

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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 (Old City), 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:318
# text = The Old City of Baku, also known as the Walled City of Baku, refers to the ancient Baku settlement.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Baku	Baku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Walled	Walled	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Baku	Baku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Baku	Baku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as the Walled City of Baku | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as city=Attribute |
| 2 | **refer** | present | the Old City of Baku |  |  |  |  | to the ancient Baku settlement | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to settlement=Co-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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