Iran, sentence 52
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.
Darius' first capital was at Susa, and he started the building program at Persepolis.
Who acts: first capital, Darius · What happens: be, start · To what, where: Susa, building program, Persepolis
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 (first capital, Darius), 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 | Darius | Darius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 capital | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Darius | case |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 capital | amod |
| 4 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Susa | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Susa | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Susa | case |
| 7 | Susa | Susa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 started | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 started | nsubj |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Susa | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 program | det |
| 13 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 program | compound |
| 14 | program | program | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Persepolis | case |
| 16 | Persepolis | Persepolis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Susa | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Darius's first capital | Susa | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | past | Darius | the building program | Persepolis | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent program=Eventuality |
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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