Iraq, sentence 129
From Wikipedia, «Iraq», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
During the subsequent Anglo-Iraqi War, the United Kingdom invaded Iraq for fear that the government might cut oil supplies to Western nations because of its links to the Axis powers.
Who acts: United Kingdom, government · What happens: invade, cut · To what, where: Iraq, oil supplies
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Iraq». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (United Kingdom, government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | During | during | ADP | _ | 7 War | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 War | det |
| 3 | subsequent | subsequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 War | amod |
| 4 | Anglo | Anglo | X | _ | 7 War | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Anglo | punct |
| 6 | Iraqi | Iraqi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 War | amod |
| 7 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 invaded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 War | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Kingdom | det |
| 10 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 11 Kingdom | flat |
| 11 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 invaded | nsubj |
| 12 | invaded | invade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 invaded | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 fear | case |
| 15 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 invaded | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 cut | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 government | det |
| 18 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 cut | aux |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 invaded | advcl |
| 21 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 supplies | compound |
| 22 | supplies | supplies | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 cut | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 nations | case |
| 24 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nations | amod |
| 25 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cut | obl |
| 26 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 29 links | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 because | fixed |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 links | nmod:poss |
| 29 | links | link | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cut | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 powers | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 powers | det |
| 32 | Axis | Axis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 powers | compound |
| 33 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 links | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 invaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invade | past | the United Kingdom | Iraq | during the subsequent Anglo Iraqi War | for fear | tree rules | ||
| 2 | cut | might | the government | oil supplies | to Western nations result; because government's links to the Axis powers | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent supplies=Patient to nation=Result |
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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