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title: Arabs had invaded these regions several times but the regions' inacc… — Iran · tree and pragmatics
description: Arabs had invaded these regions several times but the regions' inaccessible terrain prevented a decisive result. Who acts: inaccessible terrain. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iran» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iran, sentence 81

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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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Arabs had invaded these regions several times but the regions' inaccessible terrain prevented a decisive result.

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**Who acts:** inaccessible terrain · **What happens:** invade, prevent · **To what, where:** Arabs, decisive result

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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 (inaccessible terrain), 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:81
# text = Arabs had invaded these regions several times but the regions' inaccessible terrain prevented a decisive result.
1	Arabs	arab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	invaded	invade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	inaccessible	inaccessible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	terrain	terrain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	decisive	decisive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** | past · perfect · passive |  | Arabs |  |  | time | this regions *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prevent** | past | the regions's inaccessible terrain | a decisive result |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer result=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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