Tehran, sentence 184
From Wikipedia, «Tehran», 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 prevailing wind blowing from the west causes the west of Tehran to always be exposed to fresh air.
Who acts: prevailing wind · What happens: prevail, blow, cause, expose · To what, where: west, fresh air
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tehran». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prevailing wind), 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 wind | det |
| 2 | prevailing | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 wind | amod |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 causes | nsubj |
| 4 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 wind | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 west | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 west | det |
| 7 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blowing | obl |
| 8 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 west | det |
| 10 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 causes | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Tehran | case |
| 12 | Tehran | Tehran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 west | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 exposed | mark |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 exposed | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 exposed | aux:pass |
| 16 | exposed | expose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 west | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 air | amod |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exposed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 causes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | blow | gerund | the prevailing wind not said here | from the west | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from west=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | cause | present | the prevailing wind | the west of Tehran | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition west=Patient | ||||
| 4 | expose | to-infinitive · passive | the prevailing wind not said here | the west of Tehran not said here | fresh air | always property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to air=Recipient |
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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