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title: Regency of King Faisal II ended on 2 May 1953, his 18th birthday, up… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: Regency of King Faisal II ended on 2 May 1953, his 18th birthday, upon which he gained his majority. Who acts: Regency. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 131

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From Wikipedia, [«Iraq»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Regency of King Faisal II ended on 2 May 1953, his 18th birthday, upon which he gained his majority.

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**Who acts:** Regency · **What happens:** end, gain · **To what, where:** majority

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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 (Regency), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Iraq:131
# text = Regency of King Faisal II ended on 2 May 1953, his 18th birthday, upon which he gained his majority.
1	Regency	Regency	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	Faisal	Faisal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | Regency of King |  |  |  | may | Faisal *nsubj* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **gain** | past | regency | Faisal's majority |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majority=Theme |

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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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**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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