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title: After the Abbasids came to power (750 AD), the Iranians became the s… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: After the Abbasids came to power (750 AD), the Iranians became the scribes and bureaucrats of the Islamic Caliphate and, increasingly, also its writers and poets. Who acts: Abbasids, Iranians, writers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 651

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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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After the Abbasids came to power (750 AD), the Iranians became the scribes and bureaucrats of the Islamic Caliphate and, increasingly, also its writers and poets.

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**Who acts:** Abbasids, Iranians, writers · **What happens:** come, become, poet · **To what, where:** power, scribes

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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 (Abbasids, Iranians, writers), 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:651
# text = After the Abbasids came to power (750 AD), the Iranians became the scribes and bureaucrats of the Islamic Caliphate and, increasingly, also its writers and poets.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Abbasids	abbasid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	750	750	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Iranians	Iranian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	scribes	scribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bureaucrats	bureaucrat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Caliphate	caliphate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Abbasids |  |  | power and 750 AD |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to power=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **become** | past | the Iranians | the scribes and bureaucrats of the Islamic Caliphate and poets |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **poet** |  | AD's writers |  |  |  |  | increasingly *property* | 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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