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title: Iraq had no Sharia courts but civil courts used Sharia for issues of… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: Iraq had no Sharia courts but civil courts used Sharia for issues of personal status including marriage and divorce. Who acts: Iraq, civil courts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 289

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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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Iraq had no Sharia courts but civil courts used Sharia for issues of personal status including marriage and divorce.

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**Who acts:** Iraq, civil courts · **What happens:** have, use, include, issue · **To what, where:** Sharia courts, Sharia, personal status

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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 (Iraq, civil courts), 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:289
# text = Iraq had no Sharia courts but civil courts used Sharia for issues of personal status including marriage and divorce.
1	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	Sharia	Sharia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	Sharia	Sharia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	issues	issue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	case	_	_
17	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	divorce	divorce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Iraq | no Sharia courts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | past | civil courts | Sharia |  |  |  | for issues of personal status include marriage and divorce | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent sharia=Theme for issue=Eventuality |
| 3 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **issue** |  |  | personal status include marriage and divorce |  |  |  |  | nom issue «cognition 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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