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title: After the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia in the 7th century, Iraq beca… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: After the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia in the 7th century, Iraq became the metropole of the Abbasid Caliphate with Baghdad emerging as a global cultural and intellectual hub during the Islamic Golden Age, home to institutions such as the House of Wisdom. Who acts: Iraq, metropole. A sentence of Wiki
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# Iraq, sentence 7

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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 Arab conquest of Mesopotamia in the 7th century, Iraq became the metropole of the Abbasid Caliphate with Baghdad emerging as a global cultural and intellectual hub during the Islamic Golden Age, home to institutions such as the House of Wisdom.

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**Who acts:** Iraq, metropole · **What happens:** become, emerge · **To what, where:** metropole

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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 (Iraq, metropole), 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:7
# text = After the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia in the 7th century, Iraq became the metropole of the Abbasid Caliphate with Baghdad emerging as a global cultural and intellectual hub during the Islamic Golden Age, home to institutions such as the House of Wisdom.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mesopotamia	Mesopotamia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	7th	7th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	metropole	metropole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Abbasid	Abbasid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Caliphate	caliphate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	emerging	emerge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
25	global	global	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
26	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	during	during	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Golden	Golden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
39	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	42	case	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Wisdom	Wisdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Iraq | the metropole of the Abbasid Caliphate with Baghdad |  |  | after the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia in the 7th century |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **emerge** | gerund | the metropole of the Abbasid Caliphate with Baghdad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a global cultural hub during the Golden Age and home to institutions such the House of Wisdom | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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