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title: Corruption remains endemic throughout Iraqi governance while the Uni… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: Corruption remains endemic throughout Iraqi governance while the United States-endorsed sectarian political system has driven increased levels of violent terrorism and sectarian conflicts. Who acts: Corruption, United States. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 212

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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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Corruption remains endemic throughout Iraqi governance while the United States-endorsed sectarian political system has driven increased levels of violent terrorism and sectarian conflicts.

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**Who acts:** Corruption, United States · **What happens:** remain, endorse, drive, increase · **To what, where:** endemic, sectarian political system

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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 (Corruption, United States), 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:212
# text = Corruption remains endemic throughout Iraqi governance while the United States-endorsed sectarian political system has driven increased levels of violent terrorism and sectarian conflicts.
1	Corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	endemic	endemic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Iraqi	Iraqi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	endorsed	endorse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
13	sectarian	sectarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
18	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	levels	level	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	terrorism	terrorism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	sectarian	sectarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	conflicts	conflict	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | Corruption | endemic |  |  | throughout Iraqi governance |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme endemic=Attribute |
| 2 | **endorse** | participle | the United States |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **drive** | present · perfect · passive |  | sectarian political system |  |  |  | increased levels of violent terrorism and sectarian conflicts *obj* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme level=Destination |
| 4 | **increase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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