Tehran, sentence 9
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.
Large-scale construction works began in the 1920s, and Tehran became a destination for mass migrations from all over Iran, especially in the 20th century.
Who acts: scale construction, Tehran · What happens: work, begin, become · To what, where: 1920s, destination
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 (scale construction, Tehran), 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 | Large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scale | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Large | punct |
| 3 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 construction | compound |
| 4 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | nsubj |
| 5 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 works | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1920s | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 1920s | det |
| 9 | 1920s | 1920s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 began | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 became | cc |
| 12 | Tehran | Tehran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 works | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 destination | det |
| 15 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 migrations | case |
| 17 | mass | mass | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 migrations | amod |
| 18 | migrations | migration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 became | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Iran | case |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 Iran | advmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 Iran | case |
| 22 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 migrations | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 century | punct |
| 24 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 28 century | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 century | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 century | det |
| 27 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 28 century | amod |
| 28 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 works | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | scale construction | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | scale construction not said here | the 1920s | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Tehran | a destination | century | for mass migrations from Iran | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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