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title: Iran's population grew rapidly from about 19 million in 1956 to abou… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: Iran's population grew rapidly from about 19 million in 1956 to about 85 million by February 2023. Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 554

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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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Iran's population grew rapidly from about 19 million in 1956 to about 85 million by February 2023.

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** 19 million

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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 (population), 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:554
# text = Iran's population grew rapidly from about 19 million in 1956 to about 85 million by February 2023.
1	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1956	1956	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	85	85	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Iran's population |  |  | 19 million in 1956 | february | to 85 million *result*; rapidly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from million=Initial\_State to million=Result |

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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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