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title: Despite this agreement, the city was captured and devastated in 1795… — Tbilisi · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite this agreement, the city was captured and devastated in 1795 by the Iranian Qajar ruler Agha Mohammad Khan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tbilisi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tbilisi, sentence 70

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From Wikipedia, [«Tbilisi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tbilisi), 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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Despite this agreement, the city was captured and devastated in 1795 by the Iranian Qajar ruler Agha Mohammad Khan.

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**What happens:** capture, devastate · **To what, where:** city, 1795

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tbilisi». 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:Tbilisi:70
# text = Despite this agreement, the city was captured and devastated in 1795 by the Iranian Qajar ruler Agha Mohammad Khan.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	devastated	devastate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1795	1795	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Iranian	Iranian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Qajar	Qajar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	_
18	Agha	Agha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	Mohammad	Mohammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past · passive |  | the city |  |  |  | despite this agreement | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **devastate** | participle |  |  |  | 1795 |  | the Iranian Qajar ruler *obl:agent* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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, «Tbilisi», 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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