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title: The campaign led to the occupation of Baghdad in 1917, and in 1920 O… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: The campaign led to the occupation of Baghdad in 1917, and in 1920 Ottoman Iraq was formally dissolved with the establishment of the British Mandate of Mesopotamia. Who acts: campaign. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iraq, sentence 99

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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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The campaign led to the occupation of Baghdad in 1917, and in 1920 Ottoman Iraq was formally dissolved with the establishment of the British Mandate of Mesopotamia.

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**Who acts:** campaign · **What happens:** lead, dissolve, occupy, establish · **To what, where:** 1917, Ottoman, 1920, Baghdad, British Mandate

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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 (campaign), 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:99
# text = The campaign led to the occupation of Baghdad in 1917, and in 1920 Ottoman Iraq was formally dissolved with the establishment of the British Mandate of Mesopotamia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
15	Ottoman	Ottoman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Mandate	Mandate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Mesopotamia	Mesopotamia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the campaign |  |  | 1917 |  | to the occupation of Baghdad | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to occupation=Patient |
| 2 | **dissolve** | past · passive |  | Ottoman |  | 1920 |  | with the establishment of the British Mandate of Mesopotamia; formally *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with establishment=Instrument |
| 3 | **occupy** |  |  | Baghdad |  |  |  |  | nom occupation «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **establish** |  |  | the British Mandate of Mesopotamia |  |  |  |  | nom establishment «act 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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