Iraq, sentence 33

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 tenth-century geographer al-Maqdisi, defending his use of "Iraq" instead of the ancient name "Babylonia", noted that it was the only name used in his time.

Who acts: century geographer, geographer, al · What happens: defend, note, be, use · To what, where: use, only name, Iraq

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 (century geographer, geographer, al), 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	5 geographer	det
2	tenth	tenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 century	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 tenth	punct
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 geographer	compound
5	geographer	geographer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 noted	nsubj
6	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 geographer	appos
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Maqdisi	punct
8	Maqdisi	Maqdisi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 al	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 defending	punct
10	defending	defend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 geographer	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 use	nmod:poss
12	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 defending	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Iraq	case
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Iraq	punct
15	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 use	nmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	21 name	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 name	det
20	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 name	amod
21	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 use	nmod
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Babylonia	punct
23	Babylonia	Babylonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 name	appos
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Babylonia	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 noted	punct
26	noted	note	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 name	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 name	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 name	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 name	det
31	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 name	amod
32	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 noted	obj
33	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 name	acl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 time	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 time	nmod:poss
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 used	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 noted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	defend	gerund	the century geographer not said here	al's use of Iraq		instead the ancient name	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Beneficiary
2	note	past	the century geographer				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	geographer	the only name			tree rules
4	use	participle		the only name not said here	time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	use		al	Iraq		instead the ancient name	nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient instead=obl

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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Iraq, sentence 33