Tehran, sentence 25
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.
In English, it is also spelt "Teheran", with both variants being used in books since at least 1800, and "Teheran" being the dominant form from after WWII until shortly before the Islamic Revolution.
Who acts: website, spelt, Teheran · What happens: be, use · To what, where: spelt, English, variants, books, dominant form, WWII
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 (website, spelt, Teheran), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 English | case |
| 2 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spelt | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 English | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spelt | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spelt | cop |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 spelt | advmod |
| 7 | spelt | spelt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Teheran | punct |
| 9 | Teheran | Teheran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spelt | appos |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Teheran | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
| 12 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 used | mark |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 variants | det |
| 14 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 used | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 used | aux:pass |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 spelt | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 books | case |
| 18 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 used | obl |
| 19 | since | since | ADP | _ | 22 1800 | case |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 least | case |
| 21 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 1800 | nmod |
| 22 | 1800 | 1800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 used | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 form | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 form | cc |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Teheran | punct |
| 26 | Teheran | Teheran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 form | nsubj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Teheran | punct |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 form | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 form | det |
| 30 | dominant | dominant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 form | amod |
| 31 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 used | obl |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 WWII | case |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 34 WWII | case |
| 34 | WWII | WWII | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 form | nmod |
| 35 | until | until | ADP | _ | 36 shortly | case |
| 36 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 16 used | obl |
| 37 | before | before | ADP | _ | 40 Revolution | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Revolution | det |
| 39 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Revolution | amod |
| 40 | Revolution | Revolution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 used | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | website | spelt | English | Teheran appos | tree rules | ||
| 2 | use | gerund · passive | spelt not said here | both variants | books | since 1800 at least; before the Islamic Revolution | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||
| 3 | is a | gerund | Teheran | the dominant form | WWII | tree rules |
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, «Tehran», 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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