---
title: Most Iraqis are Muslims, while significant religious minorities incl… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: Most Iraqis are Muslims, while significant religious minorities include Christians, Jews, Mandaeans, Yarsanis, and Yazidis. Who acts: Most Iraqis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iraq/19/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Iraq](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iraq/) / 19

# Iraq, sentence 19

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Most Iraqis are Muslims, while significant religious minorities include Christians, Jews, Mandaeans, Yarsanis, and Yazidis.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Most Iraqis · **What happens:** be, include · **To what, where:** Muslims, Christians

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Most Iraqis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:19
# text = Most Iraqis are Muslims, while significant religious minorities include Christians, Jews, Mandaeans, Yarsanis, and Yazidis.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	Iraqis	Iraqi	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	minorities	minority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Mandaeans	Mandaean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Yarsanis	Yarsanis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Yazidis	Yazidis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Most Iraqis and Muslims *not said here* | Muslims |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **include** | present | Most Iraqis and Muslims | Christians and Jews and Mandaeans and Yarsanis and Yazidis |  |  |  | significant religious minorities *nsubj* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christian=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iraq/18/)
- next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iraq/20/)
- ↑ back to [Iraq](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iraq/)