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title: Attempts by Mohammad Mosaddegh to nationalize the oil industry led t… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: Attempts by Mohammad Mosaddegh to nationalize the oil industry led to the Anglo-American coup in 1953. Who acts: Attempts, Mohammad. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 18

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From Wikipedia, [«Iran»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran), 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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Attempts by Mohammad Mosaddegh to nationalize the oil industry led to the Anglo-American coup in 1953.

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**Who acts:** Attempts, Mohammad · **What happens:** nationalize, lead, attempt · **To what, where:** oil industry, 1953

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Iran». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Attempts, Mohammad), 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:Iran:18
# text = Attempts by Mohammad Mosaddegh to nationalize the oil industry led to the Anglo-American coup in 1953.
1	Attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Mohammad	Mohammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	Mosaddegh	Mosaddegh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	nationalize	nationalize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	Anglo	Anglo	X	AFX	_	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nationalize** | to-infinitive | Attempts by Mohammad *not said here* | the oil industry |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent industry=Patient |
| 2 | **lead** | past | Attempts by Mohammad |  |  | 1953 |  | to the American coup | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to coup=Patient |
| 3 | **attempt** |  | Mohammad |  |  |  |  |  | nom attempt «act transitive»: by=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, «Iran», 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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