--- title: The Safavid dynasty took power in Persia in 1501 and made Shia Islam… — The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia · tree and pragmatics description: The Safavid dynasty took power in Persia in 1501 and made Shia Islam the state religion, while their Ottoman neighbours and rivals were Sunni Muslims, and its capital Isfahan was one of the finest cities of the 1600s. Who acts: Safavid dynasty, Ottoman neighbours, capital. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Safavid dynasty, Ottoman neighbours, capital), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.lesson:17 # text = The Safavid dynasty took power in Persia in 1501 and made Shia Islam the state religion, while their Ottoman neighbours and rivals were Sunni Muslims, and its capital Isfahan was one of the finest cities of the 1600s. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Safavid Safavid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dynasty dynasty NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 1501 1501 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 Shia Shia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Islam Islam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 religion religion NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 Ottoman ottoman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 rivals rival NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 Sunni Sunni ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Muslims Muslim PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 Isfahan Isfahan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 conj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 37 amod _ _ 37 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 37 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the Safavid dynasty | power | | Persia | | in 1501 | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent power=Value in persia=Location | | 2 | **make** | past | the Safavid dynasty *not said here* | Shia Islam | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset islam=Product | | 3 | **is a** | past | dynasties's Ottoman neighbours and rivals | Sunni Muslims | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | religion's capital | one | | | | of the finest cities of the 1600s | tree rules | 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. **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. 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