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title: According to a study by SCImago in 2012, Iran would rank fourth in r… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: According to a study by SCImago in 2012, Iran would rank fourth in research output by 2018, if the trend persisted. Who acts: Iran, trend, SCImago. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 529

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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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According to a study by SCImago in 2012, Iran would rank fourth in research output by 2018, if the trend persisted.

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**Who acts:** Iran, trend, SCImago · **What happens:** accord, rank, persist, study

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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 (Iran, trend, SCImago), 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:529
# text = According to a study by SCImago in 2012, Iran would rank fourth in research output by 2018, if the trend persisted.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	SCImago	SCImago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	rank	rank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	output	output	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	trend	trend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	persisted	persist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rank** | would | Iran |  |  |  |  | accord a study by SCImago in 2012; by 2018; fourth *property* | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **persist** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the trend |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **study** |  | SCImago |  |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: by=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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