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title: The Rahbar is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, controls m… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rahbar is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, controls military intelligence and security operations, and has the sole power to declare war or peace. Who acts: Rahbar. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 286

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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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The Rahbar is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, controls military intelligence and security operations, and has the sole power to declare war or peace.

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**Who acts:** Rahbar · **What happens:** be, have, declare · **To what, where:** chief, sole power, war

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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 (Rahbar), 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:286
# text = The Rahbar is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, controls military intelligence and security operations, and has the sole power to declare war or peace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rahbar	Rahbar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	controls	control	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Rahbar |  |  | the chief |  | of the Armed Forces and controls; commander *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | the sole power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | war or peace |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |

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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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