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title: At their zenith, the Sasanians controlled all of modern-day Iran and… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: At their zenith, the Sasanians controlled all of modern-day Iran and Iraq and parts of the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the Caucasus, the Levant, and parts of Central and South Asia. Who acts: Sasanians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 70

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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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At their zenith, the Sasanians controlled all of modern-day Iran and Iraq and parts of the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the Caucasus, the Levant, and parts of Central and South Asia.

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**Who acts:** Sasanians · **What happens:** control · **To what, where:** all, zenith

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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 (Sasanians), 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:70
# text = At their zenith, the Sasanians controlled all of modern-day Iran and Iraq and parts of the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the Caucasus, the Levant, and parts of Central and South Asia.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	zenith	zenith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sasanians	Sasanian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	controlled	control	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	27	cc	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Levant	Levant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **control** | past | the Sasanians | all of modern day |  | Arsacids's zenith |  | parts of Central and South Asia *obl*; the Caucasus *conj* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=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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