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title: Law no. 188 of the year 1959 (Personal Status Law) made polygamy ext… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: Law no. 188 of the year 1959 (Personal Status Law) made polygamy extremely difficult, granted child custody to the mother in case of divorce, prohibited repudiation and marriage under the age of 16. Who acts: Law no.. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 287

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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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Law no. 188 of the year 1959 (Personal Status Law) made polygamy extremely difficult, granted child custody to the mother in case of divorce, prohibited repudiation and marriage under the age of 16.

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**Who acts:** Law no. · **What happens:** make, grant, prohibit · **To what, where:** polygamy

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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 (Law no.), 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:287
# text = Law no. 188 of the year 1959 (Personal Status Law) made polygamy extremely difficult, granted child custody to the mother in case of divorce, prohibited repudiation and marriage under the age of 16.
1	Law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	188	188	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	1959	1959	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Status	Status	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	polygamy	polygamy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	custody	custody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	divorce	divorce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	repudiation	repudiation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Law no. of the year | polygamy and granted child custody |  |  |  | to the mother in case of divorce and prohibited repudiation under the age of 16 and marriage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset polygamy=Product |
| 2 | **grant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **prohibit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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