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title: In April 2024, the NIOC discovered 10 giant shale oil deposits, tota… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: In April 2024, the NIOC discovered 10 giant shale oil deposits, totaling 2.6 billion barrels. Who acts: NIOC. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 508

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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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In April 2024, the NIOC discovered 10 giant shale oil deposits, totaling 2.6 billion barrels.

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**Who acts:** NIOC · **What happens:** discover, total · **To what, where:** 10 giant oil deposits, billion barrels

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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 (NIOC), 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:508
# text = In April 2024, the NIOC discovered 10 giant shale oil deposits, totaling 2.6 billion barrels.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	NIOC	NIOC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
9	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	shale	shale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	deposits	deposit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	totaling	total	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	2.6	2.6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past | the NIOC | 10 giant oil deposits |  |  | april |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deposit=Topic |
| 2 | **total** | gerund | the NIOC *not said here* | billion barrels |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrel=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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