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title: By the beginning of the 20th century, half of the oil sold in intern… — Baku · tree and pragmatics
description: By the beginning of the 20th century, half of the oil sold in international markets was extracted in Baku. Who acts: beginning. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baku» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baku, sentence 96

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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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By the beginning of the 20th century, half of the oil sold in international markets was extracted in Baku.

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**Who acts:** beginning · **What happens:** sell, extract, begin · **To what, where:** half, international markets, Baku, 20th century

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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 (beginning), 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:96
# text = By the beginning of the 20th century, half of the oil sold in international markets was extracted in Baku.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	markets	market	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	extracted	extract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Baku	Baku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | participle |  | half of the oil *not said here* |  | international markets |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **extract** | past · passive | the beginning of the 20th century and half of the oil |  |  | Baku |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | the 20th century and half of the oil |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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