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title: Iraqi Christians are predominantly native Assyrians belonging to the… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: Iraqi Christians are predominantly native Assyrians belonging to the Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic Church and Syriac Orthodox Church. Who acts: native Assyrians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# Iraq, sentence 491

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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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Iraqi Christians are predominantly native Assyrians belonging to the Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic Church and Syriac Orthodox Church.

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**Who acts:** native Assyrians · **What happens:** be, belong · **To what, where:** native Assyrians, Iraqi Christians

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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 (native Assyrians), 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:491
# text = Iraqi Christians are predominantly native Assyrians belonging to the Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic Church and Syriac Orthodox Church.
1	Iraqi	Iraqi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	predominantly	predominantly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Assyrians	Assyrian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Assyrian	Assyrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Chaldean	Chaldean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	Catholic	Catholic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	Syriac	Syriac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	Catholic	Catholic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	Syriac	Syriac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	Orthodox	Orthodox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | native Assyrians |  |  |  | predominantly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | native Assyrians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Ancient Church of the East and Assyrian Church of the East and Chaldean Catholic Church and Syriac Catholic Church and Syriac Orthodox Church | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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