Iraq, sentence 238
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.
Flanking and between the two major rivers are fertile alluvial plains, as the rivers carry about 60000000 m3 of silt annually to the delta.
Who acts: two major rivers, rivers · What happens: flank, be, carry · To what, where: 60000000, delta
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 (two major rivers, rivers), 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 | Flanking | flank | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 plains | cc |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 plains | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rivers | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 rivers | nummod |
| 6 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rivers | amod |
| 7 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 plains | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 plains | cop |
| 9 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plains | amod |
| 10 | alluvial | alluvial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plains | amod |
| 11 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Flanking | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carry | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 carry | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rivers | det |
| 15 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Flanking | advcl |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 60000000 | advmod |
| 18 | 60000000 | 60000000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 carry | obl |
| 19 | m3 | m3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 60000000 | flat |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 silt | case |
| 21 | silt | silt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 m3 | nmod |
| 22 | annually | annually | ADV | _ | 25 delta | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 delta | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 delta | det |
| 25 | delta | delta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Flanking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flank | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the two major rivers | between fertile alluvial plains | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | the rivers | 60000000 | the delta | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to delta=Destination |
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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