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title: The legislature, known as the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Iranian… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: The legislature, known as the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Iranian Parliament or "Majles", is a unicameral body comprising 290 members elected for four years. Who acts: legislature, unicameral body. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 320

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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 legislature, known as the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Iranian Parliament or "Majles", is a unicameral body comprising 290 members elected for four years.

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**Who acts:** legislature, unicameral body · **What happens:** know, be, comprise, elect · **To what, where:** legislature, unicameral body, 290 members

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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 (legislature, unicameral body), 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:320
# text = The legislature, known as the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Iranian Parliament or "Majles", is a unicameral body comprising 290 members elected for four years.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Consultative	Consultative	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Iranian	Iranian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Majles	Majles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	unicameral	unicameral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	290	290	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | the legislature *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Islamic Consultative Assembly | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as assembly=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the legislature | a unicameral body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **comprise** | gerund | a unicameral body *not said here* | 290 members |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme member=Pivot |
| 4 | **elect** | participle |  | 290 members *not said here* |  |  | year |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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