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Iran, sentence 201

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.

On his deathbed in 1989, Khomeini appointed a 25-man Constitutional Reform Council, which named Ali Khamenei as the next Supreme Leader, and made changes to Iran's constitution.

Who acts: Khomeini, Reform Council, Iran · What happens: appoint, name, make, constitute · To what, where: Reform Council, deathbed, Ali, changes

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 (Khomeini, Reform Council, Iran), 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

casenmod:possoblcasenmodpunctnsubjdetnummodpunctnsubjcompoundcompoundobjpunctnsubjacl:relclobjflatcasedetamodamodoblpunctccconjobjcasenmod:posscaseoblpunctrootOnADPhisPRONdeathbedNOUNinADP1989NUM,PUNCTKhomeiniPROPNappointedVERBaDET25NUM-PUNCTmanNOUNConstitutionalPROPNReformPROPNCouncilPROPN,PUNCTwhichPRONnamedVERBAliPROPNKhameneiPROPNasADPtheDETnextADJSupremeADJLeaderPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJmadeVERBchangesNOUNtoADPIranPROPN'sPARTconstitutionNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnonADP_3 deathbedcase
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 deathbednmod:poss
3deathbeddeathbedNOUNNumber=Sing8 appointedobl
4ininADP_5 1989case
519891989NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card3 deathbednmod
6,,PUNCT_3 deathbedpunct
7KhomeiniKhomeiniPROPNNumber=Sing8 appointednsubj
8appointedappointVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 Councildet
102525NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card12 mannummod
11--PUNCT_10 25punct
12manmanNOUNNumber=Sing15 Councilnsubj
13ConstitutionalConstitutionalPROPNNumber=Sing14 Reformcompound
14ReformReformPROPNNumber=Sing15 Councilcompound
15CouncilCouncilPROPNNumber=Sing8 appointedobj
16,,PUNCT_18 namedpunct
17whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel18 namednsubj
18namednameVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 Councilacl:relcl
19AliAliPROPNNumber=Sing18 namedobj
20KhameneiKhameneiPROPNNumber=Sing19 Aliflat
21asasADP_25 Leadercase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 Leaderdet
23nextnextADJDegree=Pos25 Leaderamod
24SupremeSupremeADJDegree=Pos25 Leaderamod
25LeaderLeaderPROPNNumber=Sing18 namedobl
26,,PUNCT_28 madepunct
27andandCCONJ_28 madecc
28mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 appointedconj
29changeschangeNOUNNumber=Plur28 madeobj
30totoADP_33 constitutioncase
31IranIranPROPNNumber=Sing33 constitutionnmod:poss
32's'sPART_31 Irancase
33constitutionconstitutionNOUNNumber=Sing28 madeobl
34..PUNCT_8 appointedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1appointpastKhomeinia Reform Council 25 manWar's deathbed in 1989vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme
2namepasta Reform Council 25 manAlias the next Supreme Leadervn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ali=Theme as leader=Attribute
3makepastKhomeini not said herechangesto Iran's constitutionvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset change=Product
4constituteIrannom constitution «communication 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.

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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