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title: Flanking and between the two major rivers are fertile alluvial plain… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: Flanking and between the two major rivers are fertile alluvial plains, as the rivers carry about 60000000 m3 of silt annually to the delta. Who acts: two major rivers, rivers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 238

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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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Flanking and between the two major rivers are fertile alluvial plains, as the rivers carry about 60000000 m3 of silt annually to the delta.

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**Who acts:** two major rivers, rivers · **What happens:** flank, be, carry · **To what, where:** 60000000, delta

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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 (two major rivers, rivers), 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:238
# text = Flanking and between the two major rivers are fertile alluvial plains, as the rivers carry about 60000000 m3 of silt annually to the delta.
1	Flanking	flank	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	alluvial	alluvial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	60000000	60000000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	m3	m3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	silt	silt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	delta	delta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flank** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the two major rivers |  |  |  |  | between fertile alluvial plains | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | present | the rivers | 60000000 |  | the delta |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to delta=Destination |

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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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