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title: After uprisings during the early 90s, many Kurds fled their homeland… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: After uprisings during the early 90s, many Kurds fled their homeland and no-fly zones were established in northern Iraq to prevent more conflicts. Who acts: many Kurds. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 335

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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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After uprisings during the early 90s, many Kurds fled their homeland and no-fly zones were established in northern Iraq to prevent more conflicts.

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**Who acts:** many Kurds · **What happens:** flee, establish, prevent · **To what, where:** homeland, fly zones, northern Iraq, more conflicts

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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 (many Kurds), 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:335
# text = After uprisings during the early 90s, many Kurds fled their homeland and no-fly zones were established in northern Iraq to prevent more conflicts.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	uprisings	uprising	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
3	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	90s	90s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Kurds	Kurd	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	homeland	homeland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	conflicts	conflict	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | many Kurds | Kurds's homeland |  |  | after uprisings during the early 90s |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeland=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **establish** | past · passive |  | no fly zones |  | northern Iraq |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **prevent** | to-infinitive |  | more conflicts |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer conflict=Theme |

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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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