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title: Under the Parthian Empire, the gōsān (Parthian for 'minstrel') had a… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the Parthian Empire, the gōsān (Parthian for 'minstrel') had a prominent role. Who acts: gōsān. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 661

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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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Under the Parthian Empire, the gōsān (Parthian for 'minstrel') had a prominent role.

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**Who acts:** gōsān · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** prominent role, Parthian Empire

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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 (gōsān), 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:661
# text = Under the Parthian Empire, the gōsān (Parthian for 'minstrel') had a prominent role.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Parthian	parthian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gōsān	gōsān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Parthian	parthian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	appos	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the gōsān | a prominent role |  | the Parthian Empire |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Patient |

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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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