Iraq, sentence 243
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.
The north of the country is mostly composed of mountains; the highest point being at 3611 m. Iraq is home to seven terrestrial ecoregions: Zagros Mountains forest steppe, Middle East steppe, Mesopotamian Marshes, Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests, Arabian Desert, Mesopotamian shrub desert, and South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert.
Who acts: highest point, Mesopotamian Marshes · What happens: compose, be, forest · To what, where: north, Arabian Desert
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 (highest point, Mesopotamian Marshes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 north | det |
| 2 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 north | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 composed | aux:pass |
| 7 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 8 composed | advmod |
| 8 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mountains | case |
| 10 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 composed | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 ecoregions | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 point | det |
| 13 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 point | amod |
| 14 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ecoregions | nsubj |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 point | acl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 3611 | case |
| 17 | 3611 | 3611 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 being | obl |
| 18 | m. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Iraq | compound |
| 19 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 3611 | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 ecoregions | cop |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 ecoregions | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 ecoregions | case |
| 23 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 ecoregions | nummod |
| 24 | terrestrial | terrestrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ecoregions | amod |
| 25 | ecoregions | ecoregion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 composed | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 steppe | punct |
| 27 | Zagros | Zagros | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mountains | compound |
| 28 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 steppe | compound |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 steppe | compound |
| 30 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ecoregions | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 steppe | punct |
| 32 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 East | compound |
| 33 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 steppe | compound |
| 34 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 steppe | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Marshes | punct |
| 36 | Mesopotamian | Mesopotamian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Marshes | compound |
| 37 | Marshes | Marshes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 forests | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Mediterranean | punct |
| 39 | Eastern | Eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Mediterranean | amod |
| 40 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Marshes | conj |
| 41 | conifer | conifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 forests | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 conifer | punct |
| 43 | sclerophyllous | sclerophyllous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 forests | amod |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 sclerophyllous | punct |
| 45 | broadleaf | broadleaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 forests | amod |
| 46 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 steppe | parataxis |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Desert | punct |
| 48 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Desert | amod |
| 49 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 forests | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 desert | punct |
| 51 | Mesopotamian | mesopotamian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 desert | amod |
| 52 | shrub | shrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 desert | compound |
| 53 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 forests | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 Iran | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 Iran | cc |
| 56 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Iran | compound |
| 57 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ecoregions | nmod |
| 58 | Nubo | Nubo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Iran | flat |
| 59 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 61 desert | punct |
| 60 | Sindian | sindian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 desert | amod |
| 61 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 Iran | appos |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 semi-desert | cc |
| 63 | semi-desert | semi-desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 desert | conj |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 composed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | present · passive | the north of the country | of mountains; mostly property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the highest point | to seven terrestrial ecoregions and Mountains forest steppe and East steppe; South Iran nmod; Mountains forest steppe and East steppe conj; home property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forest | Mesopotamian Marshes and Eastern Mediterranean | Arabian Desert | Mesopotamian shrub desert conj | tree rules |
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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