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title: Persian was a language of poetry and government far beyond Persia, u… — Languages and peoples on the map · tree and pragmatics
description: Persian was a language of poetry and government far beyond Persia, used at the courts of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals. Who acts: Persian. A sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Languages and peoples on the map, sentence 21

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Persian was a language of poetry and government far beyond Persia, used at the courts of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals.

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**Who acts:** Persian · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** language, courts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Persian), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson:21
# text = Persian was a language of poetry and government far beyond Persia, used at the courts of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
10	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Sultanate	sultanate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Mughals	mughal	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Persian | a language |  |  |  | of poetry and government | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | a language *not said here* |  | the courts of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals |  | far *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson:21`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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