--- title: The provincial authority is headed by a governor-general (استاندار,… — Iran · tree and pragmatics description: The provincial authority is headed by a governor-general (استاندار, ostândâr), who is appointed by the Minister of the Interior subject to the approval of the cabinet. Who acts: governor general, Minister. 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The provincial authority is headed by a governor-general (استاندار, ostândâr), who is appointed by the Minister of the Interior subject to the approval of the cabinet. **Who acts:** governor general, Minister · **What happens:** head, appoint, approve · **To what, where:** provincial authority, governor general, cabinet 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 (governor general, Minister), 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:342 # text = The provincial authority is headed by a governor-general (استاندار, ostândâr), who is appointed by the Minister of the Interior subject to the approval of the cabinet. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 provincial provincial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 authority authority NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 headed head VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 governor governor NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 general general NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 استاندار استاندار NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 ostândâr ostândâr NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Interior Interior PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 approval approval NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 cabinet cabinet NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **head** | present · passive | a governor general | the provincial authority | | | | | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **appoint** | present · passive | the Minister of the Interior subject | a governor general | | | | to the approval of the cabinet | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to approval=Attribute | | 3 | **approve** | | | the cabinet | | | | | nom approval «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 341](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iran/341/) - next →: [sentence 343](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iran/343/) - ↑ back to [Iran](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iran/)