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title: From the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC), the courts of successive dy… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: From the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC), the courts of successive dynasties led the style of Persian art, and court-sponsored art left many of the most impressive pieces that remain. Who acts: courts, sponsored art, impressive pieces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Iran, sentence 616

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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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From the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC), the courts of successive dynasties led the style of Persian art, and court-sponsored art left many of the most impressive pieces that remain.

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**Who acts:** courts, sponsored art, impressive pieces · **What happens:** lead, sponsor, leave, remain · **To what, where:** style, Achaemenid Empire, many

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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 (courts, sponsored art, impressive pieces), 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:616
# text = From the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC), the courts of successive dynasties led the style of Persian art, and court-sponsored art left many of the most impressive pieces that remain.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Achaemenid	Achaemenid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	550	550	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	330	330	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dynasties	dynasty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	sponsored	sponsor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	34	advmod	_	_
34	impressive	impressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the courts of successive dynasties | the style of Persian art |  | the Achaemenid Empire |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent style=Theme from empire=Destination |
| 2 | **sponsor** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | court *compound* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | past | sponsored art | many of the impressive pieces |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 4 | **remain** | present | the impressive pieces |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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