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title: This led to the Greco-Persian Wars, which lasted the first half of t… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: This led to the Greco-Persian Wars, which lasted the first half of the 5th century BC. Who acts: This. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 55

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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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This led to the Greco-Persian Wars, which lasted the first half of the 5th century BC.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** lead, last · **To what, where:** first half

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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 (This), 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:55
# text = This led to the Greco-Persian Wars, which lasted the first half of the 5th century BC.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Greco	Greco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Wars	War	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	5th	5th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | This |  |  |  |  | to the Greco Persian Wars | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to war=Patient |
| 2 | **last** | past |  | the first half of the 5th century |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme half=Value |

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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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