Iran, sentence 144
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.
Meanwhile, Britain became involved in southern Iran to counter Russia's presence in the north, which posed a threat to British India.
Who acts: Britain, presence · What happens: become, counter, pose · To what, where: southern Iran, presence, north, threat, British India
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 (Britain, presence), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 became | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | involved | involved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Iran | case |
| 7 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Iran | amod |
| 8 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 became | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 counter | mark |
| 10 | counter | counter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 became | advcl |
| 11 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 presence | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Russia | case |
| 13 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 counter | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 north | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 north | det |
| 16 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presence | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 posed | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 posed | nsubj |
| 19 | posed | pose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 presence | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 threat | det |
| 21 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 posed | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 India | case |
| 23 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 India | amod |
| 24 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 threat | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Britain | in southern Iran result; involved, meanwhile property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in iran=Result | ||||
| 2 | counter | to-infinitive | Britain not said here | Russia's presence | the north | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme | |||
| 3 | pose | past | Russia's presence | a threat | British India | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent threat=Theme to india=Recipient |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Iran», 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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