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title: On 30 June and 11 December 2009, the Ministry of Oil awarded service… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: On 30 June and 11 December 2009, the Ministry of Oil awarded service contracts to international oil companies for some of Iraq's many oil fields. Who acts: Ministry. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 423

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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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On 30 June and 11 December 2009, the Ministry of Oil awarded service contracts to international oil companies for some of Iraq's many oil fields.

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**Who acts:** Ministry · **What happens:** award · **To what, where:** service contracts, international oil companies

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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 (Ministry), 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:423
# text = On 30 June and 11 December 2009, the Ministry of Oil awarded service contracts to international oil companies for some of Iraq's many oil fields.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
6	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Ministry	Ministry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Oil	Oil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	awarded	award	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	contracts	contract	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **award** | past | the Ministry of Oil | service contracts |  |  | june | to international oil companies for some of Iraq's many oil fields *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent contract=Theme to company=Goal |

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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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