Iran, sentence 616
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.
From the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC), the courts of successive dynasties led the style of Persian art, and court-sponsored art left many of the most impressive pieces that remain.
Who acts: courts, sponsored art, impressive pieces · What happens: lead, sponsor, leave, remain · To what, where: style, Achaemenid Empire, many
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 (courts, sponsored art, impressive pieces), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 Empire | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Empire | det |
| 3 | Achaemenid | Achaemenid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Empire | compound |
| 4 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 550 | punct |
| 6 | 550 | 550 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Empire | appos |
| 7 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 8 330 | case |
| 8 | 330 | 330 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 550 | nmod |
| 9 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 550 | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 550 | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Empire | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 courts | det |
| 13 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 led | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dynasties | case |
| 15 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dynasties | amod |
| 16 | dynasties | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 courts | nmod |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 style | det |
| 19 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 art | case |
| 21 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 art | amod |
| 22 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 style | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 left | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 left | cc |
| 25 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sponsored | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 court | punct |
| 27 | sponsored | sponsor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 art | amod |
| 28 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 left | nsubj |
| 29 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 led | conj |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 left | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 pieces | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 pieces | det |
| 33 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 34 impressive | advmod |
| 34 | impressive | impressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 pieces | amod |
| 35 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 many | nmod |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 remain | nsubj |
| 37 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 pieces | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the courts of successive dynasties | the style of Persian art | the Achaemenid Empire | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent style=Theme from empire=Destination | |||
| 2 | sponsor | participle | court compound | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | sponsored art | many of the impressive pieces | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remain | present | the impressive pieces | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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