Tehran, sentence 289
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 feasibility study and conceptual planning of the construction of Tehran's subway system were started in the 1970s.
What happens: start, plan, construct · To what, where: feasibility study, 1970s, construction, subway system
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: 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 study | det |
| 2 | feasibility | feasibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 study | compound |
| 3 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 started | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 planning | cc |
| 5 | conceptual | conceptual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 planning | amod |
| 6 | planning | planning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 study | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 construction | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 construction | det |
| 9 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 planning | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 system | case |
| 11 | Tehran | Tehran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 system | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Tehran | case |
| 13 | subway | subway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 system | compound |
| 14 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 construction | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 started | aux:pass |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1970s | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 1970s | det |
| 19 | 1970s | 1970s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 16 started | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past · passive | the feasibility study and conceptual planning of the construction of Tehran's subway system | the 1970s | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | plan | the construction of Tehran's subway system | nom planning «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | construct | Tehran's subway system | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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