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title: The initial phase of the [housing] plan began in late 2023, when Al-… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: The initial phase of the [housing] plan began in late 2023, when Al-Sudani laid the foundation stone of Al-Jawahiri city. Who acts: initial phase, Al. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 448

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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 initial phase of the \[housing\] plan began in late 2023, when Al-Sudani laid the foundation stone of Al-Jawahiri city.

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**Who acts:** initial phase, Al · **What happens:** begin, lay · **To what, where:** late 2023, foundation stone

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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 (initial phase, Al), 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:448
# text = The initial phase of the [housing] plan began in late 2023, when Al-Sudani laid the foundation stone of Al-Jawahiri city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	initial	initial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	phase	phase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	housing	housing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
16	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Sudani	Sudani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
19	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Jawahiri	Jawahiri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
27	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the initial phase of the housing plan |  |  | late 2023 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lay** | past | Al | the foundation stone of Al city |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Result |

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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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