Tehran, sentence 316
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.
Some of these institutions have played crucial roles in the unfolding of Iranian political events.
Who acts: Iranian political events · What happens: play, unfold · To what, where: Some, unfolding
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 (Iranian political events), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 played | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 institutions | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 institutions | det |
| 4 | institutions | institution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 played | aux |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | crucial | crucial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 roles | amod |
| 8 | roles | role | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 played | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 unfolding | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 unfolding | det |
| 11 | unfolding | unfolding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 events | case |
| 13 | Iranian | Iranian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 events | amod |
| 14 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 events | amod |
| 15 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 unfolding | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · perfect · passive | Some of this institutions | the unfolding of Iranian political events | crucial roles obj | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary role=Theme | |||
| 2 | unfold | Iranian political events | nom unfolding «process intransitive»: of=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.
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