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title: It was constructed to be a major cargo hub in the CIS countries, and… — Baku · tree and pragmatics
description: It was constructed to be a major cargo hub in the CIS countries, and is actually now one of the biggest and most technically advanced in the region. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baku» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baku, sentence 398

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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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It was constructed to be a major cargo hub in the CIS countries, and is actually now one of the biggest and most technically advanced in the region.

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**What happens:** construct, be · **To what, where:** airport, major cargo hub, CIS countries, one

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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:398
# text = It was constructed to be a major cargo hub in the CIS countries, and is actually now one of the biggest and most technically advanced in the region.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	CIS	CIS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	technically	technically	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **construct** | past · passive |  | airport |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a major cargo hub |  | the CIS countries |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | one |  |  | now | of the biggest; actually *property* | tree rules |

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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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