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title: Sunni insurgents belonging to the Islamic State group seized control… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: Sunni insurgents belonging to the Islamic State group seized control of large swathes of land including several major cities, like Tikrit, Fallujah and Mosul, creating hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons amid reports of atrocities by ISIS fighters. Who acts: Sunni insurgents. A sen
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# Iraq, sentence 201

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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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Sunni insurgents belonging to the Islamic State group seized control of large swathes of land including several major cities, like Tikrit, Fallujah and Mosul, creating hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons amid reports of atrocities by ISIS fighters.

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**Who acts:** Sunni insurgents · **What happens:** belong, seize, include, create, displace, report · **To what, where:** hundreds, Sunni insurgents, atrocities

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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 (Sunni insurgents), 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:201
# text = Sunni insurgents belonging to the Islamic State group seized control of large swathes of land including several major cities, like Tikrit, Fallujah and Mosul, creating hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons amid reports of atrocities by ISIS fighters.
1	Sunni	Sunni	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	insurgents	insurgent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	swathes	swathe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	case	_	_
17	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Tikrit	Tikrit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Fallujah	Fallujah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Mosul	Mosul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	creating	create	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
29	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	internally	internally	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	displaced	displace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
36	amid	amid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	atrocities	atrocity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	ISIS	isis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	fighters	fighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | gerund | Sunni insurgents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the State group  seized control of large swathes of land include several major cities like Tikrit and Fallujah and Mosul | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **create** | gerund | Sunni insurgents *not said here* | hundreds of thousands of displaced persons |  |  |  | by ISIS fighters; amid reports of atrocities *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **displace** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | internally *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **report** |  |  | atrocities |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: of=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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