Iraq, sentence 519
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.
To escape the Syrian civil war, over 252,000 Syrian refugees of varying ethnicities have fled to Iraq since 2012.
Who acts: 252,000 Syrian refugees, ethnicities · What happens: escape, vary, flee · To what, where: Syrian civil war, 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 (252,000 Syrian refugees, ethnicities), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 escape | mark |
| 2 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 war | det |
| 4 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 war | amod |
| 5 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 war | amod |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 escape | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 refugees | punct |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 252,000 | advmod |
| 9 | 252,000 | 252,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 refugees | nummod |
| 10 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 refugees | amod |
| 11 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 escape | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 varying | mark |
| 13 | varying | vary | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 refugees | acl |
| 14 | ethnicities | ethnicity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fled | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fled | aux |
| 16 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 varying | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Iraq | case |
| 18 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fled | obl |
| 19 | since | since | ADP | _ | 20 2012 | case |
| 20 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 fled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | to-infinitive | the Syrian civil war | 252,000 Syrian refugees obl | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | vary | gerund | 252,000 Syrian refugees not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | flee | present · perfect | ethnicities | Iraq | since 2012 | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to iraq=Initial_Location |
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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