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title: Their authority was eventually replaced by the Qara Qoyunlu, a Turko… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: Their authority was eventually replaced by the Qara Qoyunlu, a Turkoman confederation that captured Baghdad in the early 15th century and extended its rule over much of Iraq. Who acts: Qara Qoyunlu, Turkoman confederation, authority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and prag
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# Iraq, sentence 88

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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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Their authority was eventually replaced by the Qara Qoyunlu, a Turkoman confederation that captured Baghdad in the early 15th century and extended its rule over much of Iraq.

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**Who acts:** Qara Qoyunlu, Turkoman confederation, authority · **What happens:** replace, capture, extend, rule · **To what, where:** authority, Baghdad, rule, much

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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 (Qara Qoyunlu, Turkoman confederation, authority), 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:88
# text = Their authority was eventually replaced by the Qara Qoyunlu, a Turkoman confederation that captured Baghdad in the early 15th century and extended its rule over much of Iraq.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Qara	Qara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Qoyunlu	Qoyunlu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Turkoman	turkoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	confederation	confederation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	15th	15th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	extended	extend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **replace** | past · passive | the Qara Qoyunlu | rule's authority |  |  |  | eventually *property* | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **capture** | past | a Turkoman confederation | Baghdad |  |  | century |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baghdad=Theme |
| 3 | **extend** | past | a Turkoman confederation *not said here* | authority's rule |  | much of Iraq |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 4 | **rule** |  | authority |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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