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title: International NGOs have been targeted and during the first 5 years,… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: International NGOs have been targeted and during the first 5 years, 94 aid workers were killed, 248 injured, 24 arrested or detained and 89 kidnapped or abducted. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 365

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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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International NGOs have been targeted and during the first 5 years, 94 aid workers were killed, 248 injured, 24 arrested or detained and 89 kidnapped or abducted.

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**What happens:** target, kill, arrest, detain, kidnap, abduct · **To what, where:** International NGOs, 94 aid workers, 24, 89

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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:365
# text = International NGOs have been targeted and during the first 5 years, 94 aid workers were killed, 248 injured, 24 arrested or detained and 89 kidnapped or abducted.
1	International	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	NGOs	ngo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	targeted	target	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
7	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
10	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	94	94	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	248	248	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	injured	injured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
23	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	detained	detain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	89	89	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
28	kidnapped	kidnap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	abducted	abduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **target** | present · perfect · passive |  | International NGOs |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past · passive |  | 94 aid workers |  |  | year |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **arrest** | participle |  | 24 |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **detain** | participle |  | 89 |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **kidnap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **abduct** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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