--- title: On his deathbed in 1989, Khomeini appointed a 25-man Constitutional… — Iran · tree and pragmatics description: On his deathbed in 1989, Khomeini appointed a 25-man Constitutional Reform Council, which named Ali Khamenei as the next Supreme Leader, and made changes to Iran's constitution. Who acts: Khomeini, Reform Council, Iran. 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On his deathbed in 1989, Khomeini appointed a 25-man Constitutional Reform Council, which named Ali Khamenei as the next Supreme Leader, and made changes to Iran's constitution. **Who acts:** Khomeini, Reform Council, Iran · **What happens:** appoint, name, make, constitute · **To what, where:** Reform Council, deathbed, Ali, changes 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 (Khomeini, Reform Council, Iran), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Iran:201 # text = On his deathbed in 1989, Khomeini appointed a 25-man Constitutional Reform Council, which named Ali Khamenei as the next Supreme Leader, and made changes to Iran's constitution. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 deathbed deathbed NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1989 1989 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 Khomeini Khomeini PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 appointed appoint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 10 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 Constitutional Constitutional PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Reform Reform PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Council Council PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 named name VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 Khamenei Khamenei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 Supreme Supreme ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Leader Leader PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 29 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 Iran Iran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 constitution constitution NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appoint** | past | Khomeini | a Reform Council 25 man | | War's deathbed in 1989 | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme | | 2 | **name** | past | a Reform Council 25 man | Ali | | | | as the next Supreme Leader | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ali=Theme as leader=Attribute | | 3 | **make** | past | Khomeini *not said here* | changes | | | | to Iran's constitution | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset change=Product | | 4 | **constitute** | | Iran | | | | | | nom constitution «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 200](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iran/200/) - next →: [sentence 202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iran/202/) - ↑ back to [Iran](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iran/)