Tehran, sentence 68
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.
During the Persian campaign of World War I, Russian forces that were occupying the northwest of Iran marched around Qazvin and approached Tehran, causing a crisis and the dissolution of parliament.
Who acts: Russian forces, World War · What happens: occupy, march, approach, cause, campaign, dissolve · To what, where: northwest, Qazvin, Tehran, crisis, parliament
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 (Russian forces, World War), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 campaign | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 campaign | det |
| 3 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 campaign | amod |
| 4 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marched | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 War | case |
| 6 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 War | compound |
| 7 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 campaign | nmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 War | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 campaign | punct |
| 10 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forces | amod |
| 11 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 marched | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 occupying | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 occupying | aux |
| 14 | occupying | occupy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 forces | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 northwest | det |
| 16 | northwest | northwest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 occupying | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Iran | case |
| 18 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 northwest | nmod |
| 19 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 21 Qazvin | case |
| 21 | Qazvin | Qazvin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 marched | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 approached | cc |
| 23 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 marched | conj |
| 24 | Tehran | Tehran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 approached | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 causing | punct |
| 26 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 approached | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 crisis | det |
| 28 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 causing | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dissolution | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dissolution | det |
| 31 | dissolution | dissolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crisis | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 parliament | case |
| 33 | parliament | parliament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dissolution | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | past · progressive | Russian forces | the northwest of Iran | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus northwest=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | march | past | Russian forces | Qazvin | during the Persian campaign of World War I | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around qazvin=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | approach | past | Russian forces not said here | Tehran | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tehran=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cause | gerund | Russian forces not said here | a crisis and the dissolution of parliament | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition crisis=Patient | ||||
| 5 | campaign | World War I | nom campaign «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | dissolve | parliament | nom dissolution «process 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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