Iraq, sentence 88
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.
Their authority was eventually replaced by the Qara Qoyunlu, a Turkoman confederation that captured Baghdad in the early 15th century and extended its rule over much of Iraq.
Who acts: Qara Qoyunlu, Turkoman confederation, authority · What happens: replace, capture, extend, rule · To what, where: authority, Baghdad, rule, much
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 (Qara Qoyunlu, Turkoman confederation, authority), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 authority | nmod:poss |
| 2 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replaced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replaced | aux:pass |
| 4 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 5 replaced | advmod |
| 5 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Qoyunlu | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Qoyunlu | det |
| 8 | Qara | Qara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Qoyunlu | compound |
| 9 | Qoyunlu | Qoyunlu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replaced | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 confederation | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 confederation | det |
| 12 | Turkoman | turkoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 confederation | compound |
| 13 | confederation | confederation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Qoyunlu | appos |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 captured | nsubj |
| 15 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 confederation | acl:relcl |
| 16 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 captured | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 century | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 century | det |
| 19 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 century | amod |
| 20 | 15th | 15th | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 century | amod |
| 21 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 captured | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 extended | cc |
| 23 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 captured | conj |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 rule | nmod:poss |
| 25 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 extended | obj |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 much | case |
| 27 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 extended | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Iraq | case |
| 29 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 much | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | replace | past · passive | the Qara Qoyunlu | rule's authority | eventually property | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | capture | past | a Turkoman confederation | Baghdad | century | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baghdad=Theme | |||
| 3 | extend | past | a Turkoman confederation not said here | authority's rule | much of Iraq | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | |||
| 4 | rule | authority | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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