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title: Around 250,000 to 370,000 Christians reside in Iran, and it is the l… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: Around 250,000 to 370,000 Christians reside in Iran, and it is the largest recognized minority religion. Who acts: 250,000 Christians, irreligion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 591

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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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Around 250,000 to 370,000 Christians reside in Iran, and it is the largest recognized minority religion.

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**Who acts:** 250,000 Christians, irreligion · **What happens:** reside, recognize, be · **To what, where:** Iran, largest recognized minority religion

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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 (250,000 Christians, irreligion), 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:591
# text = Around 250,000 to 370,000 Christians reside in Iran, and it is the largest recognized minority religion.
1	Around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	250,000	250,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	370,000	370,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reside	reside	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
15	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reside** | present | 250,000 Christians |  |  | Iran |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in iran=Location |
| 2 | **recognize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | irreligion | the largest recognized minority religion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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