Iran, sentence 98
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.
Although Persians adopted the religion of their conquerors, over the centuries they worked to protect and revive their distinctive language and culture, a process known as Persianization.
Who acts: Persians · What happens: adopt, work, protect, revive, know · To what, where: religion, centuries, distinctive language, process
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 (Persians), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 3 adopted | mark |
| 2 | Persians | Persian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 adopted | nsubj |
| 3 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 religion | det |
| 5 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 adopted | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 conquerors | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 conquerors | nmod:poss |
| 8 | conquerors | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 religion | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 centuries | punct |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 centuries | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 centuries | det |
| 12 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 adopted | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 worked | nsubj |
| 14 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 centuries | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 protect | mark |
| 16 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 worked | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 revive | cc |
| 18 | revive | revive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 protect | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 language | nmod:poss |
| 20 | distinctive | distinctive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 language | amod |
| 21 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 revive | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 culture | cc |
| 23 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 language | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 process | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 process | det |
| 26 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 language | appos |
| 27 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 process | acl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 Persianization | case |
| 29 | Persianization | Persianization | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 known | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 adopted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | past | Persians | the religion of Persians's conquerors | century | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Theme | |||
| 2 | work | past | Persians = persian | the centuries not said here | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent century=Material | ||||
| 3 | protect | to-infinitive | Persians = persian not said here | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | revive | infinitive | Persians = persian not said here | Persians's distinctive language and culture | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent language=Patient | ||||
| 5 | know | participle | a process not said here | as Persianization | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as persianization=Attribute |
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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