Iraq, sentence 363
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.
In 2022, and after more than 30 years after the UN Compensation Commission was created to ensure restitution for Kuwait following the invasion of 1990, the reparations body announced that Iraq has paid a total of $52.4 billion in war reparations to Kuwait.
Who acts: reparations body · What happens: create, ensure, follow, announce, pay · To what, where: 2022, restitution, Iraq, war reparations · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (reparations body), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2022 | case |
| 2 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 created | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 created | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 created | cc |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 8 30 | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 more | fixed |
| 8 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 created | obl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 Commission | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Commission | det |
| 12 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Commission | compound |
| 13 | Compensation | Compensation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Commission | compound |
| 14 | Commission | Commission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 created | obl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 created | aux:pass |
| 16 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 ensure | mark |
| 18 | ensure | ensure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 created | advcl |
| 19 | restitution | restitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ensure | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Kuwait | case |
| 21 | Kuwait | Kuwait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ensure | obl |
| 22 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 invasion | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 invasion | det |
| 24 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ensure | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 1990 | case |
| 26 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 invasion | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 announced | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 body | det |
| 29 | reparations | reparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 body | compound |
| 30 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 announced | nsubj |
| 31 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 created | advcl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 paid | mark |
| 33 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 paid | aux |
| 35 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 announced | ccomp |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 total | det |
| 37 | total | total | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 paid | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 $ | case |
| 39 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 37 total | nmod |
| 40 | 52.4 | 52.4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 billion | compound |
| 41 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 $ | nummod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 reparations | case |
| 43 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 reparations | compound |
| 44 | reparations | reparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 paid | obl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 Kuwait | case |
| 46 | Kuwait | Kuwait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 reparations | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past · passive | 2022 | after the UN Compensation Commission; year | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 2 | ensure | to-infinitive | restitution | for Kuwait; follow the invasion of 1990 | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition restitution=Theme for kuwait=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | announce speech: other | past | the reparations body | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | pay | present · perfect · passive | Iraq | war reparations to Kuwait | a total obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient total=Asset |
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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