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title: Since the new Constitution of Iraq was approved in 2005, both Arabic… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: Since the new Constitution of Iraq was approved in 2005, both Arabic and Kurdish are recognised (Article 4) as official languages of Iraq, while three other languages, Turkmen, Syriac and Armenian, are also recognised as minority languages. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree a
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# Iraq, sentence 478

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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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Since the new Constitution of Iraq was approved in 2005, both Arabic and Kurdish are recognised (Article 4) as official languages of Iraq, while three other languages, Turkmen, Syriac and Armenian, are also recognised as minority languages.

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**What happens:** approve, recognise · **To what, where:** new Constitution, 2005, Arabic, three other languages

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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:478
# text = Since the new Constitution of Iraq was approved in 2005, both Arabic and Kurdish are recognised (Article 4) as official languages of Iraq, while three other languages, Turkmen, Syriac and Armenian, are also recognised as minority languages.
1	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc:preconj	_	_
13	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Kurdish	Kurdish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Turkmen	Turkmen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Syriac	Syriac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Armenian	Armenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
39	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
40	also	also	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approve** | past · passive |  | the new Constitution of Iraq |  | 2005 |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **recognise** | present · passive |  | Arabic |  |  |  | as official languages of Iraq; Article *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **recognise** | present · passive |  | three other languages |  |  |  | as minority languages | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as language=Attribute |

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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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