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title: To escape the Syrian civil war, over 252,000 Syrian refugees of vary… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: To escape the Syrian civil war, over 252,000 Syrian refugees of varying ethnicities have fled to Iraq since 2012. Who acts: 252,000 Syrian refugees, ethnicities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 519

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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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To escape the Syrian civil war, over 252,000 Syrian refugees of varying ethnicities have fled to Iraq since 2012.

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**Who acts:** 252,000 Syrian refugees, ethnicities · **What happens:** escape, vary, flee · **To what, where:** Syrian civil war, Iraq

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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 (252,000 Syrian refugees, ethnicities), 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:519
# text = To escape the Syrian civil war, over 252,000 Syrian refugees of varying ethnicities have fled to Iraq since 2012.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	escape	escape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	252,000	252,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	varying	vary	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	ethnicities	ethnicity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	since	since	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | to-infinitive |  | the Syrian civil war |  |  |  | 252,000 Syrian refugees *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **vary** | gerund | 252,000 Syrian refugees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **flee** | present · perfect | ethnicities |  |  | Iraq | since 2012 |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to iraq=Initial\_Location |

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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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