Iraq, sentence 470
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 southern Iraq, there is a community of Iraqis of African descent, a legacy of the slavery practised in the Islamic Caliphate beginning before the Zanj Rebellion of the 9th century, and Basra's role as a key port.
Who acts: community, Islamic Caliphate · What happens: be, practise, begin · To what, where: southern Iraq, slavery, Islamic Caliphate
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 (community, Islamic Caliphate), 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 | _ | 3 Iraq | case |
| 2 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Iraq | amod |
| 3 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 is | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Iraq | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 community | det |
| 8 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Iraqis | case |
| 10 | Iraqis | Iraqi | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 community | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 descent | case |
| 12 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 descent | amod |
| 13 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Iraqis | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 legacy | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 legacy | det |
| 16 | legacy | legacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 descent | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 slavery | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 slavery | det |
| 19 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 legacy | nmod |
| 20 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 slavery | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Caliphate | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Caliphate | det |
| 23 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Caliphate | amod |
| 24 | Caliphate | caliphate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 practised | obl |
| 25 | beginning | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Caliphate | acl |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 Rebellion | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Rebellion | det |
| 28 | Zanj | Zanj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Rebellion | compound |
| 29 | Rebellion | Rebellion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 beginning | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 century | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 century | det |
| 32 | 9th | 9th | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 century | amod |
| 33 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Rebellion | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 role | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 role | cc |
| 36 | Basra | Basra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 role | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 Basra | case |
| 38 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | conj |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 port | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 port | det |
| 41 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 port | amod |
| 42 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 role | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a community of Iraqis of African descent | southern Iraq; there | Basra's role as a key port conj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in iraq=Location | |||
| 2 | practise | participle | the slavery not said here | the Islamic Caliphate | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | gerund | the Islamic Caliphate not said here | before the Zanj Rebellion of the 9th century | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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