Iraq, sentence 289
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.
Iraq had no Sharia courts but civil courts used Sharia for issues of personal status including marriage and divorce.
Who acts: Iraq, civil courts · What happens: have, use, include, issue · To what, where: Sharia courts, Sharia, personal status
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 (Iraq, civil courts), 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 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 courts | det |
| 4 | Sharia | Sharia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 courts | compound |
| 5 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 used | cc |
| 7 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 courts | amod |
| 8 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 used | nsubj |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 10 | Sharia | Sharia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 used | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 issues | case |
| 12 | issues | issue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 used | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 status | case |
| 14 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 status | amod |
| 15 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 issues | nmod |
| 16 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 marriage | case |
| 17 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 status | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 divorce | cc |
| 19 | divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 status | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Iraq | no Sharia courts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Patient | ||||
| 2 | use | past | civil courts | Sharia | for issues of personal status include marriage and divorce | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent sharia=Theme for issue=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | issue | personal status include marriage and divorce | nom issue «cognition 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.
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