--- title: In 2022, and after more than 30 years after the UN Compensation Comm… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics description: In 2022, and after more than 30 years after the UN Compensation Commission was created to ensure restitution for Kuwait following the invasion of 1990, the reparations body announced that Iraq has paid a total of $52.4 billion in war reparations to Kuwait. Who acts: reparations body. 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In 2022, and after more than 30 years after the UN Compensation Commission was created to ensure restitution for Kuwait following the invasion of 1990, the reparations body announced that Iraq has paid a total of $52.4 billion in war reparations to Kuwait. **Who acts:** reparations body · **What happens:** create, ensure, follow, announce, pay · **To what, where:** 2022, restitution, Iraq, war reparations · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (reparations body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:363 # text = In 2022, and after more than 30 years after the UN Compensation Commission was created to ensure restitution for Kuwait following the invasion of 1990, the reparations body announced that Iraq has paid a total of $52.4 billion in war reparations to Kuwait. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 8 advmod _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 UN UN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 Compensation Compensation PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Commission Commission PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 created create VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 ensure ensure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 19 restitution restitution NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Kuwait Kuwait PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 invasion invasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 1990 1990 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 reparations reparation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 compound _ _ 30 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 Iraq Iraq PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 ccomp _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 total total NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 $ $ SYM $ _ 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 52.4 52.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 compound _ _ 41 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 reparations reparation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Kuwait Kuwait PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **create** | past · passive | | | | 2022 | after the UN Compensation Commission; year | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» | | 2 | **ensure** | to-infinitive | | restitution | | | | for Kuwait; follow the invasion of 1990 | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition restitution=Theme for kuwait=Beneficiary | | 3 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the reparations body | | | | | | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **pay** | present · perfect · passive | | Iraq | | war reparations to Kuwait | | a total *obj* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient total=Asset | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 362](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iraq/362/) - next →: [sentence 364](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iraq/364/) - ↑ back to [Iraq](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iraq/)