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title: One system is ruled by the military and intelligence forces, who rep… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: One system is ruled by the military and intelligence forces, who report to the Rahbar, and "who oversee the nuclear programme and regional proxies and are tasked with repression, hostage taking and assassinations". Who acts: military, intelligence forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its de
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# Iran, sentence 293

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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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One system is ruled by the military and intelligence forces, who report to the Rahbar, and "who oversee the nuclear programme and regional proxies and are tasked with repression, hostage taking and assassinations".

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**Who acts:** military, intelligence forces · **What happens:** rule, report, oversee, task · **To what, where:** One system, nuclear programme

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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 (military, intelligence forces), 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:293
# text = One system is ruled by the military and intelligence forces, who report to the Rahbar, and "who oversee the nuclear programme and regional proxies and are tasked with repression, hostage taking and assassinations".
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	report	report	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Rahbar	Rahbar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	oversee	oversee	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	nuclear	nuclear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	programme	programme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	proxies	proxy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	tasked	task	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	repression	repression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	hostage	hostage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	taking	taking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	assassinations	assassination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | present · passive | the military and intelligence forces | One system |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **report** | present | intelligence forces |  |  |  |  | to the Rahbar | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to rahbar=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **oversee** *in a quote* | present |  | the nuclear programme and regional proxies |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent programme=Eventuality |
| 4 | **task** *in a quote* | present · passive | the military and intelligence forces *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with repression | tree rules |

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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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