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title: Juan José Linz wrote in 2000 that "the Iranian regime combines the i… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: Juan José Linz wrote in 2000 that "the Iranian regime combines the ideological bent of totalitarianism with the limited pluralism of authoritarianism". Who acts: Juan, Iranian regime. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 298

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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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Juan José Linz wrote in 2000 that "the Iranian regime combines the ideological bent of totalitarianism with the limited pluralism of authoritarianism".

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**Who acts:** Juan, Iranian regime · **What happens:** write, combine · **To what, where:** 2000, ideological bent

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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 (Juan, Iranian regime), 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:298
# text = Juan José Linz wrote in 2000 that "the Iranian regime combines the ideological bent of totalitarianism with the limited pluralism of authoritarianism".
1	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	José	José	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Linz	Linz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Iranian	Iranian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	combines	combine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	ideological	ideological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bent	bent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	totalitarianism	totalitarianism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pluralism	pluralism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	authoritarianism	authoritarianism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Juan |  |  | 2000 |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 2000=Destination |
| 2 | **combine** *in a quote* | present | the Iranian regime | the ideological bent of totalitarianism with the limited pluralism of authoritarianism |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bent=Patient |

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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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