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title: In 1501, the Safavid dynasty of Iran subdued the Shirvanshahs and ga… — Azerbaijan · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1501, the Safavid dynasty of Iran subdued the Shirvanshahs and gained its possessions. Who acts: Safavid dynasty, Shirvanshahs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Azerbaijan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Azerbaijan, sentence 54

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From Wikipedia, [«Azerbaijan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In 1501, the Safavid dynasty of Iran subdued the Shirvanshahs and gained its possessions.

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**Who acts:** Safavid dynasty, Shirvanshahs · **What happens:** subdue, gain, possess · **To what, where:** Shirvanshahs, 1501, possessions

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Azerbaijan». 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, Shirvanshahs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Azerbaijan:54
# text = In 1501, the Safavid dynasty of Iran subdued the Shirvanshahs and gained its possessions.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1501	1501	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Safavid	Safavid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	subdued	subdue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Shirvanshahs	Shirvanshah	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **subdue** | past | the Safavid dynasty of Iran | the Shirvanshahs |  | 1501 |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirvanshah=Patient |
| 2 | **gain** | past | the Safavid dynasty of Iran *not said here* | Shirvanshahs's possessions |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** |  | Shirvanshahs |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Azerbaijan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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