Iran, sentence 342
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.
The provincial authority is headed by a governor-general (استاندار, ostândâr), who is appointed by the Minister of the Interior subject to the approval of the cabinet.
Who acts: governor general, Minister · What happens: head, appoint, approve · To what, where: provincial authority, governor general, cabinet
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 (governor general, Minister), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 authority | det |
| 2 | provincial | provincial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 authority | amod |
| 3 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 headed | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 headed | aux:pass |
| 5 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 general | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 general | det |
| 8 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 general | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 governor | punct |
| 10 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 headed | obl |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 استاندار | punct |
| 12 | استاندار | استاندار | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 general | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ostândâr | punct |
| 14 | ostândâr | ostândâr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 استاندار | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 استاندار | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 appointed | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 appointed | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 appointed | aux:pass |
| 19 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 general | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Minister | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Minister | det |
| 22 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 appointed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 subject | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 subject | det |
| 25 | Interior | Interior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 subject | compound |
| 26 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Minister | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 approval | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 approval | det |
| 29 | approval | approval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appointed | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 cabinet | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cabinet | det |
| 32 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 approval | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 headed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | head | present · passive | a governor general | the provincial authority | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appoint | present · passive | the Minister of the Interior subject | a governor general | to the approval of the cabinet | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to approval=Attribute | |||
| 3 | approve | the cabinet | nom approval «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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