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title: After the end of the war in 1991, Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ite Muslims in… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: After the end of the war in 1991, Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ite Muslims in northern and southern Iraq led several uprisings against Saddam's regime, but these were repressed. Who acts: Iraqi Kurds. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 176

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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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After the end of the war in 1991, Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ite Muslims in northern and southern Iraq led several uprisings against Saddam's regime, but these were repressed.

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**Who acts:** Iraqi Kurds · **What happens:** lead, repress · **To what, where:** several uprisings, regime, these

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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 (Iraqi Kurds), 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:176
# text = After the end of the war in 1991, Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ite Muslims in northern and southern Iraq led several uprisings against Saddam's regime, but these were repressed.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Iraqi	Iraqi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Kurds	Kurd	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Shi'ite	Shi'ite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
20	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	uprisings	uprising	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Saddam	Saddam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	repressed	repress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq and Shi'ite Muslims | several uprisings |  | Saddam's regime | after the end of the war in 1991 |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent uprising=Theme against regime=Destination |
| 2 | **repress** | past · passive |  | these |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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