Iraq, sentence 201
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.
Sunni insurgents belonging to the Islamic State group seized control of large swathes of land including several major cities, like Tikrit, Fallujah and Mosul, creating hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons amid reports of atrocities by ISIS fighters.
Who acts: Sunni insurgents · What happens: belong, seize, include, create, displace, report · To what, where: hundreds, Sunni insurgents, atrocities
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 (Sunni insurgents), 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 | Sunni | Sunni | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 insurgents | amod |
| 2 | insurgents | insurgent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 insurgents | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 group | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 group | det |
| 6 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 State | amod |
| 7 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 group | compound |
| 8 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belonging | obl |
| 9 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 control | amod |
| 10 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 group | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 swathes | case |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 swathes | amod |
| 13 | swathes | swathe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 control | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swathes | nmod |
| 16 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 cities | case |
| 17 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cities | amod |
| 18 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cities | amod |
| 19 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 swathes | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tikrit | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 Tikrit | case |
| 22 | Tikrit | Tikrit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 cities | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Fallujah | punct |
| 24 | Fallujah | Fallujah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Tikrit | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Mosul | cc |
| 26 | Mosul | Mosul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Tikrit | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 creating | punct |
| 28 | creating | create | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 belonging | advcl |
| 29 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 creating | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 thousands | case |
| 31 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hundreds | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 persons | case |
| 33 | internally | internally | ADV | _ | 34 displaced | advmod |
| 34 | displaced | displace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 persons | amod |
| 35 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 thousands | nmod |
| 36 | amid | amid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 reports | amod |
| 37 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 creating | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 atrocities | case |
| 39 | atrocities | atrocity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 reports | nmod |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 fighters | case |
| 41 | ISIS | isis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fighters | compound |
| 42 | fighters | fighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 creating | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 insurgents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | gerund | Sunni insurgents not said here | to the State group seized control of large swathes of land include several major cities like Tikrit and Fallujah and Mosul | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | create | gerund | Sunni insurgents not said here | hundreds of thousands of displaced persons | by ISIS fighters; amid reports of atrocities obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | displace | participle | internally property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | report | atrocities | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Iraq», 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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