--- title: The Islamic style of dense decoration, geometrically laid out, devel… — Iran · tree and pragmatics description: The Islamic style of dense decoration, geometrically laid out, developed in Iran into an elegant and harmonious style, combining motifs derived from plants with Chinese motifs such as the cloud-band, and often animals represented at a smaller scale. Who acts: Islamic style. 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The Islamic style of dense decoration, geometrically laid out, developed in Iran into an elegant and harmonious style, combining motifs derived from plants with Chinese motifs such as the cloud-band, and often animals represented at a smaller scale. **Who acts:** Islamic style · **What happens:** lay out, develop, combine, derive, represent · **To what, where:** Islamic style, Iran, motifs, animals, plants, smaller scale 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 (Islamic style), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:617 # text = The Islamic style of dense decoration, geometrically laid out, developed in Iran into an elegant and harmonious style, combining motifs derived from plants with Chinese motifs such as the cloud-band, and often animals represented at a smaller scale. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Islamic Islamic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 dense dense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 decoration decoration NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 geometrically geometrically ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 developed develop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Iran Iran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 elegant elegant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 harmonious harmonious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 combining combine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 23 motifs motif NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 derived derive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 motifs motif NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 35 case _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 often often ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 40 represented represent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 44 amod _ _ 44 scale scale NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay out** | participle | the Islamic style of dense decoration *not said here* | | | | | geometrically *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **develop** | participle | | the Islamic style of dense decoration *not said here* | | Iran | | into a elegant style | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in iran=Location | | 3 | **combine** | gerund | | motifs | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motif=Patient | | 4 | **derive** | past | the Islamic style of dense decoration | animals | | plants with Chinese motifs such the cloud band | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from plant=Material | | 5 | **represent** | participle | | animals *not said here* | | a smaller scale | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 616](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iran/616/) - next →: [sentence 618](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iran/618/) - ↑ back to [Iran](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iran/)