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title: Iran's contemporary art traces its origins to Kamal-ol-molk, a promi… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: Iran's contemporary art traces its origins to Kamal-ol-molk, a prominent realist painter at the Qajar court who affected the norms of painting and adopted a naturalistic style that would compete with photographic works. Who acts: contemporary art, Qajar court, naturalistic style. A sentence of Wikip
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# Iran, sentence 623

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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 contemporary art traces its origins to Kamal-ol-molk, a prominent realist painter at the Qajar court who affected the norms of painting and adopted a naturalistic style that would compete with photographic works.

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**Who acts:** contemporary art, Qajar court, naturalistic style · **What happens:** trace, affect, adopt, compete · **To what, where:** origins, norms, naturalistic style

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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 (contemporary art, Qajar court, naturalistic style), 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:623
# text = Iran's contemporary art traces its origins to Kamal-ol-molk, a prominent realist painter at the Qajar court who affected the norms of painting and adopted a naturalistic style that would compete with photographic works.
1	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	traces	trace	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	origins	origin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	Kamal	Kamal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ol	ol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	molk	molk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	realist	realist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Qajar	Qajar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	affected	affect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	norms	norm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	naturalistic	naturalistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	compete	compete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	photographic	photographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace** | present | Iran's contemporary art | art's origins |  |  |  | to Kamal ol molk | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Theme |
| 2 | **affect** | past | the Qajar court | the norms of painting |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus norm=Experiencer |
| 3 | **adopt** | past | the Qajar court *not said here* | a naturalistic style |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Theme |
| 4 | **compete** | would | a naturalistic style |  |  |  |  | with photographic works | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with work=Co-Agent |

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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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