Iran, sentence 134
From Wikipedia, «Iran», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
However, his military spending had a ruinous effect on the Iranian economy.
Who acts: military spending, Alexander · What happens: have, spend · To what, where: ruinous effect, Iranian economy
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Iran». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (military spending, Alexander), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 spending | nmod:poss |
| 4 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spending | amod |
| 5 | spending | spending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 effect | det |
| 8 | ruinous | ruinous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 effect | amod |
| 9 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 economy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 economy | det |
| 12 | Iranian | Iranian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 economy | amod |
| 13 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 effect | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Alexander's military spending | a ruinous effect | the Iranian economy | however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient | ||
| 2 | spend | Alexander | nom spending «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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