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title: Corruption remains endemic throughout all levels of Iraqi governance… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: Corruption remains endemic throughout all levels of Iraqi governance while the political system has exacerbated sectarian conflict. Who acts: Corruption. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 251

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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 all levels of Iraqi governance while the political system has exacerbated sectarian conflict.

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**Who acts:** Corruption · **What happens:** remain, exacerbate · **To what, where:** endemic, 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), 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:251
# text = Corruption remains endemic throughout all levels of Iraqi governance while the political system has exacerbated sectarian conflict.
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	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	levels	level	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Iraqi	Iraqi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	exacerbated	exacerbate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
16	sectarian	sectarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 all levels of Iraqi governance |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme endemic=Attribute |
| 2 | **exacerbate** | present · perfect · passive |  | the political system |  |  |  | sectarian conflict *obj* | tree rules |

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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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