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title: The name al-ʿIrāq is attested as a common toponym in pre-Islamic Ara… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: The name al-ʿIrāq is attested as a common toponym in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 29

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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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The name al-ʿIrāq is attested as a common toponym in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry.

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**What happens:** attest · **To what, where:** name

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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: 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:29
# text = The name al-ʿIrāq is attested as a common toponym in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ʿIrāq	ʿirāq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	attested	attest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	toponym	toponym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	pre-Islamic	pre-islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attest** | present · passive |  | the name |  |  |  | as a common toponym in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry | 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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