Iraq, sentence 518
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.
After the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, numerous Iraqis in Syria returned to their native country.
Who acts: numerous Iraqis · What happens: return, start · To what, where: Syrian Civil War
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 (numerous Iraqis), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 start | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 start | det |
| 3 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 War | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 War | det |
| 6 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 War | amod |
| 7 | Civil | Civil | PROPN | _ | 8 War | flat |
| 8 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 start | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 2011 | case |
| 10 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 War | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Iraqis | punct |
| 12 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Iraqis | amod |
| 13 | Iraqis | Iraqi | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Syria | case |
| 15 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Iraqis | nmod |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 country | nmod:poss |
| 19 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 country | amod |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | numerous Iraqis in Syria | after the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011 | to Iraqis's native country result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result | |||
| 2 | start | the Syrian Civil War in 2011 | nom start «event 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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