Iran, sentence 623
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.
Iran's contemporary art traces its origins to Kamal-ol-molk, a prominent realist painter at the Qajar court who affected the norms of painting and adopted a naturalistic style that would compete with photographic works.
Who acts: contemporary art, Qajar court, naturalistic style · What happens: trace, affect, adopt, compete · To what, where: origins, norms, naturalistic style
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 (contemporary art, Qajar court, naturalistic style), 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 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 art | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Iran | case |
| 3 | contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 art | amod |
| 4 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 traces | nsubj |
| 5 | traces | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 origins | nmod:poss |
| 7 | origins | origin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 traces | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 molk | case |
| 9 | Kamal | Kamal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 molk | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kamal | punct |
| 11 | ol | ol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 molk | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ol | punct |
| 13 | molk | molk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 traces | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 painter | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 painter | det |
| 16 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 painter | amod |
| 17 | realist | realist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 painter | amod |
| 18 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 molk | appos |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 court | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 court | det |
| 21 | Qajar | Qajar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 court | compound |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 painter | nmod |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 affected | nsubj |
| 24 | affected | affect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 court | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 norms | det |
| 26 | norms | norm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 affected | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 painting | case |
| 28 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 norms | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 adopted | cc |
| 30 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 affected | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 style | det |
| 32 | naturalistic | naturalistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 style | amod |
| 33 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 adopted | obj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 compete | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 compete | aux |
| 36 | compete | compete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 style | acl:relcl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 works | case |
| 38 | photographic | photographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 works | amod |
| 39 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 compete | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 traces | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | present | Iran's contemporary art | art's origins | to Kamal ol molk | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Theme | |||
| 2 | affect | past | the Qajar court | the norms of painting | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus norm=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | adopt | past | the Qajar court not said here | a naturalistic style | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Theme | ||||
| 4 | compete | would | a naturalistic style | with photographic works | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with work=Co-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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