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title: After the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, numerous Iraqis in… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: After the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, numerous Iraqis in Syria returned to their native country. Who acts: numerous Iraqis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 518

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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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After the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, numerous Iraqis in Syria returned to their native country.

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**Who acts:** numerous Iraqis · **What happens:** return, start · **To what, where:** Syrian Civil War

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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 (numerous Iraqis), 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:518
# text = After the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, numerous Iraqis in Syria returned to their native country.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Civil	Civil	PROPN	NNP	_	8	flat	_	_
8	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Iraqis	Iraqi	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | numerous Iraqis in Syria |  |  |  | after the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011 | to Iraqis's native country *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result |
| 2 | **start** |  |  | the Syrian Civil War in 2011 |  |  |  |  | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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