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title: The Safavids temporarily lost power in Iran in 1722; Emperor Peter t… — Baku · tree and pragmatics
description: The Safavids temporarily lost power in Iran in 1722; Emperor Peter the Great of Russia took advantage of the situation and invaded. Who acts: Safavids, Emperor Peter. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baku» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baku, sentence 56

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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 Safavids temporarily lost power in Iran in 1722; Emperor Peter the Great of Russia took advantage of the situation and invaded.

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**Who acts:** Safavids, Emperor Peter · **What happens:** lose, take, invade · **To what, where:** power, Iran, advantage

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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 (Safavids, Emperor Peter), 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:56
# text = The Safavids temporarily lost power in Iran in 1722; Emperor Peter the Great of Russia took advantage of the situation and invaded.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Safavids	Safavid	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	temporarily	temporarily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1722	1722	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | participle | the Safavids | power |  | Iran |  | in 1722; temporarily *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take** | past | Emperor Peter | advantage of the situation |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme |
| 3 | **invade** | past | Emperor Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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